Capparis buwaldae M.Jacobs

Climbing shrub or liana, 2-15 m high, glabrous; twigs terete, slightly zig-zag; internodes 1-8 cm. Thorns recurved, 1-3 mm long, often wanting. Leaves firmly herbaceous, oblong, sometimes ovate or obovate, (2.2-)2.4-4(-5) times as long as wide, 6-13(-23.5) by (1.5-)2.5-4.5(-8) cm; base rounded to acute, top narrowed, acuminate, tip acute, often mucronulate, 3-20 mm long; midrib sulcate above; nerves (4-)6-9 pairs, conspicuously looped-arcuating; petiole 4-7(-10) mm. Flowers white, as a rule on slender, short, lateral twigs, serial, 2-4, supra-axillary. Pedicels slender, 1—3(-4) cm long, glabrous. Buds globular, acute, c. 3 mm diam. Sepals ovate, 3-5 by 2-3 mm, with a slightly thickened and more or less acute top, outer pair almost glabrous at the margins, inner pair slightly ciliate. Petals very thin, 4-6 by 2-3 mm, white, outside more pubescent than inside, often minutely ciliate. Disk bilobed, fleshy, 1 by 1.5 mm. Stamens 20-30, c. 2 cm long. Gynophore 13-20 mm, ovary ellipsoid to globular, c. 1.5 by ¾-1 mm, smooth, stigma 0.5 mm long, all glabrous. In fruit the pedicel hardly incrassate and the gynophore slightly so. Fruit orange or red, globular to ellipsoid, 3-5.5 by 2½-3.5 cm, shortly umbonate at the top and sometimes also at the base; pericarp woody to coriaceous, 2-3 mm thick, more or less tuberculate. Seeds ∞, embedded in whitish pulp, 10 by 6-8 by 5-6 mm, smooth, brown.

Forests, jungle, along rivers, from the lowland up to c. 1600 m. Fl. fr. Jan.-Dec.

Uses. Two collectors mention the fruit(pulp) to be edible.

Can be grown by seedlings.