Entry for ASPARAGUS Cooperi Baker [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 CooperiBaker [family ASPARAGACEAE], in Gard. Chron. 1874, i. 818;—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 613.
Information
stems terete, glabrous, green, wide-climbing; prickles woody, spreading, pungent, 1/6 in. long; branches spreading, slender, copiously decompound, with patent branchlets; cladodia very slender, subulate, often a dozen or more in a cluster, 1/4– 1/3 in. long; flowers axillary, 1–3-nate; pedicels 1/6 in. long, articulated below the middle; perianth campanulate, 1/12 in. long; segments oblanceolate-oblong, spreading horizontally; stamens nearly as long as the perianth-segments; berry globose, 1/6 in. diam., 1-seeded. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; in woods on the sides of Bosch Berg, 2800–4000 ft., MacOwan, 1810!
Notes
Originally described from specimens in the garden of Mr. Wilson Saunders in 1871, collected by Mr. Thos. Cooper.
