Name: Rat-bean; Berraco, Palo berraco, Palo verraco (Cuba), Church blossom, Mabouge, Mabouya, Rope, Sapo (Lesser Antilles)
Distribution: Mexico (Campeche, Quintana Roo, Yucatan, Chiapas, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Queretaro, San Luis Potosi, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz); Guatemala; Belize; El Salvador; Honduras; Nicaragua; Costa Rica; Panama; Cuba; Jamaica; Hispaniola; Puerto Rico; Virgin Isl. (Guana, Jost van Dyke, St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas, Tortola); Anguilla; St. Martin/St. Maarten; St. Barthélémy; Saba; St. Eustatius; St. Kitts; Antigua; Barbuda; Montserrat; Guadeloupe; Marie-Galante; Dominica; Martinique; St. Lucia; Grenadines; St. Vincent; Grenada; Barbados; Tobago; Trinidad; Colombia (Antioquia, Atlántico, Bolívar, Boyacá, Caquetá, Cesar, Chocó, Cundinamarca, La Guajira, Magdalena, Meta, San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina, Santander, Sucre, Tolima); Isla Margarita; Venezuela (Amazonas, Anzoategui, Apure, Aragua, Barinas, Bolívar, Carabobo, Cojedes, Venezuela Distrito Federal, Falcon, Guarico, Lara, Merida, Miranda, Monagas, Nueva Esparta, Portuguesa, Sucre, Tachira, Trujillo, Yaracuy, Zulia); Guyana; Surinam; French Guiana; Ecuador; Peru; N-Brazil (Pará, Amazonas); NE-Brazil (Piauí, Ceara, Pernambuco, Bahia, Sergipe); SE-Brazil (Minas Gerais, Espirito Santo, São Paulo); S-Brazil (Paraná)
79 MEX 80 BLZ COS ELS GUA HON NIC PAN 81 ABA AGU BBD CUB DOM GDL GRE HIS JAM MAR MTS PUE SAB SBA STE STK STL STM STV TRT VEN VIR 82 CLM FRG GUY SUR SWC VEN 83 ECU PER 84 BRA
Synonyms: hidden
= Capparidastrum elegans (Mart.) Hutch.; Gen. Fl. Pl. 2: 310 (1967)
= Capparis arrabidae Steud.; Nomencl. Bot. [Steudel], ed. 2, 1: 276 (1841)
= Capparis commutata Spreng.; Neue Entdeck. Pflanzenk. [Sprengel] 3: 57 (1822)
= Capparis cuneata DC.; Prodr. [A.P. de Candolle] 1: 249 (1824)
= Capparis elegans Mart.; Flora 22(1. Beibl.): 24 (1839)
= Capparis flexuosa Vell.; Fl. Flumin. 230 (1829), nom. illeg.
= Capparis frondosa Jacq.; Enum. Syst. Pl. 24 (1760), L. Sp. Pl., ed. 2 [Linnaeus] App. 1674
= Capparis petiolaris Banks ex DC.; Prodr. [A.P. de Candolle] 1: 249 (1824)
= Capparis stenophylla Standl.; J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 13: 437 (1923)
= Capparis triflora Mill.; Gard. Dict., ed. 8: no. 10 (1768)
= Morisonia elegans (Mart.) Christenh. & Byng; Global Fl. 4: 141 (2018)
= Morisonia frondosa (Jacq.) Christenh. & Byng; Global Fl. 4: 141 (2018)
= Pleuteron frondosa (Jacq.) Raf.; Sylva Tellur. 109 (1838)
= Uterveria frondosa (Jacq.) Bertol.; Horti Bonon. Pl. Nov. 2: 8 (1839)