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Asparagopsis setacea

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Identification
Asparagopsis setacea Kunth [family LILIACEAE ] Verified by Unknown, Asparagus setaceus (Kunth)Jessop [family ASPARAGACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by J.P.Jessop, Asparagus declinatus L. [family ASPARAGACEAE ] Verified by Unknown,
Related name
  • Asparagus declinatus
  • Asparagus setaceus
  • Asparagopsis setacea
Common name
  • lace-fern, Flora of North America Vol. 26
  • Climbing asparagus-fern, Flora of North America Vol. 26

Flora

Entry for ASPARAGUS declinatus Linn. [family ASPARAGACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 253, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
ASPARAGUS declinatus Linn. [family ASPARAGACEAE], Sp. Plant. 313;—Miller, Dict. edit. vi. No. 7; Lam. Encyc. i. 294; Bresl. Diss. No. 32; Thunb. Prodr. 66; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 333; Kunth, Enum. v. 59; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 609.
Asparagopsis setacea Kunth [family ], Enum. v. 82.
Information
stems sarmentose, slender, woody, terete, glabrous; main leaves produced into a hard spreading deltoid spur; branches decompound, with numerous slender straight spreading or deflexed branchlets; cladodia slender, subulate, bright green, 1/3– 1/2 in. long, 6–10 in the lateral clusters, up to 20 in those at the tip and base of the branchlets; pedicels 2–3-nate, 1/8– 1/6 in. long, articulated at the middle; perianth campanulate, 1/12 in. long; segments obtuse; stamens nearly as long as the perianth; berry small, globose, 1-seeded. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; in woods on the sides of Bosch Berg, 3000–4000 ft., MacOwan, 1917!COAST REGION George Div.; Outeniqua, in woods, Thunberg! Knysna Div.; Koratra, under 1000 ft., Drège, 8584b! Uitenhage Div., Zeyher, Asparag. No. 3! Alexandria Div.; Enon, in Olyvenhout Kloof and Olifants Kloof, under 1000 ft., Drège, 8584c!EASTERN REGION Pondoland, Bachmann, 262! Natal, Cooper, 1127!

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