Name
Identification
Asparagus omahekensis K.Krause [family LILIACEAE ] Verified by Sölch, A., Asparagus suaveolens Burch. [family LILIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
- Asparagus suaveolens
- Asparagus omahekensis
Flora
Entry for Asparagus suaveolens Burch. [family ASPARAGACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2006) Author: SEBSEBE DEMISSEW
Names
Asparagus suaveolens Burch. [family ASPARAGACEAE], Travels Int. S. Africa 2: 226 (1824); Pole Evans in Fl. Pl. S. Afr. 11: t. 409 (1931); Jessop in Bothalia 9: 45 (1966). Type: South Africa, Cape Province, Griquatown, Burchell 1956 (K!, holo.)
Asparagus triacanthus Roem. & Schult. [family ASPARAGACEAE], Syst. Veg. ed. 7, 7(1): 334 (1829). Type: South Africa, Cape, Lichtenstein in Herb. Willd. no. 6693 (B-W!, holo.)
Asparagopsis triacanthus (Roem. & Schult.) Kunth [family ], Enum. Pl. 5: 91 (1850)
Asparagopsis zeyheri Kunth [family ], Enum. Pl. 5: 92 (1850). Type: South Africa, without locality, Zeyher s.n. (B!, holo.)
Asparagus spinosissimus Kuntze [family ASPARAGACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. 3(2): 315 (1898). Type: South Africa, Cape Province, Cathcart, Kuntze s.n. (NY!, holo.)
Asparagus omahekensis Krause [family ASPARAGACEAE], in E.J. 51: 447 (1914). Type: Namibia, Omaheke between Gobabis and Oas, Dinter 2711 (B!, holo.)
Asparagus intangibilis Dinter [family ASPARAGACEAE], in F.R. 29: 269 (1931). Type: Namibia, ’ Grosse Karasberge’, Dinter 5168 (B!, holo.)
Protasparagus suaveolens (Burch.) Oberm. [family ASPARAGACEAE], in S. Afr. Journ. Bot. 2: 244 (1983)
Information
Erect shrub, up to 1 m high; stems erect, straight or slightly zigzagging, with short internodes, glabrous; branches and main stems with spines 6– 9 mm long. Cladodes solitary or in fascicles of 2– 6, subulate, 3– 6(– 19) mm long. Flowers solitary or in fascicles of 2– 3 on terminal branches; bracts overlapping, broadly elliptic, 1× 0.5 mm, rounded to acute at apex; pedicel 1– 5(– 10) mm long, articulated near base. Tepals narrowly obovate, 1.5– 3.5 mm long, white with a dark midrib; ovary obovoid, 3-locular with 4– 6 ovules in each locule; style and stigmas short. Berry black, ± 5 mm in diameter, the dry perianth persistent, 1– 3-seeded.
Range
DISTR. K 4, 5; T 1, 2 widespread and common all over southern Africa except northern Namibia and northern Botswana
Altitude range
1500– 2000 m
Distribution
KENYA Kericho District Sotik, 27 Jan. 1965, Parker EA 13143!KENYA Forest near Nairobi, Recd. Aug. 1912, Mason s.n.!TANZANIA Musoma District Serengeti, N of Bolgonja, 12 Apr. 1972, Schmidt 417!;TANZANIA Masai District 9 km from Lokisale on Arusha Road, 11 June 1965, Leippert 5871!