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Asparagus plumosus

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Type of Asparagus plumosus Baker [family LILIACEAE]
Type of Asparagus plumosus Baker [family LILIACEAE]
Type of Asparagus plumosus Baker [family LILIACEAE]
Syntype of Asparagus plumosus Baker [family ASPARAGACEAE]
Asparagus plumosus Baker [family ASPARAGACEAE]
Syntype of Asparagus plumosus Baker [family ASPARAGACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Asparagus setaceus (Kunth)Jessop [family ASPARAGACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by J.P.Jessop, Asparagus plumosus Baker [family ASPARAGACEAE ] Verified by Unknown,
Related name
  • Asparagus setaceus
  • Asparagus plumosus
  • Asparagus cooperi
Common name
  • lace-fern, Flora of North America Vol. 26
  • asparagus fern; lace fern., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • Climbing asparagus-fern, Flora of North America Vol. 26

Flora

Entry for ASPARAGUS plumosus 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 plumosus Baker [family ASPARAGACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 613
Information
stems terete, green, glabrous, sarmentose; main leaves not produced into distinct prickles; branches decompound, spreading horizontally, with the branchlets and cladodia in one plane; cladodia very slender, filiform, bright green, 6–12 in a cluster, 1/3– 1/2 in. long; pedicels 1–2-nate, shorter than the flowers, articulated at the middle; perianth campanulate, 1/8 in. long; segments oblanceolate-oblong, spreading widely; stamens 2/3 the length of the perianth; berry globose, bright black, 1-seeded, 1/6 in. diam. null
Range
The finest of all the species for decorative purposes, and now widely spread in European gardens.
Distribution
COAST REGION British Kaffraria, Cooper, 202 partly!EASTERN REGION Pondoland, Bachmann, 261! Natal; Port Natal, Drège, 4482! Inanda, Wood, 1649! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 227! Gerrard and McKen, 754!

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