29, see text Cadaba is a genus of shrubs in family Capparaceae, with about 30 species.

The zygomorphic flowers, are solitary or stand in small clusters at the end of short side branches.

These flowers consist of four sepals, none or four petals with a narrow claw at base and a wider plate at the top, a tube-shaped nectar producing appendix, four or five stamens that are merged for about half their length into a so-called androgynophore, and a gynophore on top of which will develop a cylindrical capsule with one or two cavities that contain many small kindney-shaped seeds, and opens with two valves.

Some species are classified as famine food in southern Ethiopia.

[3] 29 species are accepted:[1] This Brassicales article is a stub.