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Asparagus retrofractus

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Name

Identification
Asparagus retrofractus L. [family LILIACEAE/ASPARAGACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Asparagus africanus
  • Asparagus retrofractus
  • Asparagus not on sheet
  • Asparagus flexuosus
  • Asparagus microphyllus

Flora

Entry for ASPARAGUS capensis 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 capensis Linn. [family ASPARAGACEAE], Sp. Plant. 314;—Miller, Dict. edit. viii. No. 9; Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. iii. 8, t. 266; Thunb. Prodr. 66; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 334; Bresl. Diss. 21; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 617, non Linn. herb.
ASPARAGUS retrofractus Wendl. [family ASPARAGACEAE], Hort. Herren, t. 22, non Linn.
Asparagopsis passerinoides Kunth [family ], Enum. v. 90.
Information
stems woody, copiously branched, suberect, terete; prickles large, spreading, pungent, one at the base of each fascicle of final branchlets; branches ascending, woody, rather flexuose; branchlets in dense clusters, 3/4–1 in. long; cladodia subulate, densely clustered, ascending, pale green, pubescent, distinctly mucronate, 1/12– 1/8 in. long; flowers produced only from the tip of the branchlets, usually solitary, subsessile; perianth campanulate, 1/8 in. long; segments oblong, obtuse; ovules 4–5 in a cell; berry small, 1-seeded. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Graaff Reinet Div.; Sneeuw Berg Range, 4000–5000 ft., Drège, 8591!COAST REGION near Cape Town, Thunberg! Table Mountain, 1000–2000 ft., Drège! Lion Mountain, Burchell, 8451! Paarl Div.; hills by the Berg River, near Onderste Pont, below 500 ft., Drège! Tulbagh Div.; on the Wind-heuvel, Koedoes Mountains, Burchell, 1288/1! Uitenhage Div., Cooper, 1573! Zeyher, 46!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Masson! Oldenburg!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand, between Kaus, Natvoet, and Doorn Poort, 1000–2000 ft., Drège, 8593!
Notes
The plant that represents A. capensis in the Linnean herbarium is A. asiaticus.

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