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Asparagus benguellensis

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Name

Identification
Asparagus benguellensis Baker [family ASPARAGACEAE ] (stored under name);
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Flora

Entry for ASPARAGUS benguellensis Baker [family ASPARAGACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 421, (1898) Author: (By J. G. Baker.)
Names
ASPARAGUS benguellensis Baker [family ASPARAGACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. i. 253.
Information
A decumbent glabrous subscandent shrub. Branches copiously pinnate; branchlets ascending or spreading, 4–6 in. long, with short internodes. Spur of lower leaves not spinous. Cladodia 3–6 in a cluster, slender, subulate, ascending, 1/2– 3/4 in. long. Flowers usually 1–2, rarely 3–4 in a cluster; pedicels 1/4– 1/3 in. long, articulated at the middle. Perianth funnel-shaped, 1/4 in. long. Anthers oblong, minute, much shorter than the filaments.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Mossamedes and Huilla; in thickets at Mumpullo, Welwitsch, 3872! 3873!

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