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Asparagus sarmentosus

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Identification
Asparagus sarmentosus L. [family ASPARAGACEAE ] Verified by Unknown, Asparagus densiflorus (Kunth)Jessop [family ASPARAGACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by J.P.Jessop,
Related name
  • Asparagus racemosus
  • Asparagus sarmentosus
  • Dracaena volubilis
  • Asparagus densiflorus
  • Myrsiphyllum angustifolium

Flora

Entry for ASPARAGUS sarmentosus 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 sarmentosus Linn. [family ASPARAGACEAE], Sp. Plant. 314;—Miller, Dict. edit. viii. No. 10; Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 155; Ait. Hort. Kew. edit. 2, ii. 275; Bresl. Diss. No. 18; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 625.
Asparagopsis sarmentosa Kunth [family ], Enum. v. 97.
Information
stems woody, multisulcate, suberect or twining; prickles deflexed, pungent; branchlets numerous, slender, square, not zigzag, spreading or ascending, internodes very short; phyllocladia linear, rigid, mucronate, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, solitary unless at the tip of the branchlets, flat on both faces, bright green, furnished with a distinct midrib; racemes 1–3 in. long, spreading from the woody branches; lower pedicels 1/12– 1/8 in. long, articulated about the middle; bracts minute, scariose; perianth 1/12 in. long; segments oblong, obtuse, spreading widely; stamens nearly as long as the perianth; anthers minute, globose; berry globose, 1-seeded, 1/4 in. diam. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Alexandria Div.; Zwartwater Poort, Burchell, 3383! Somerset Div.; Commadagga, Burchell, 3302! Var. β, Somerset Div.; sides of Bosch Berg, 3500 ft., MacOwan, 1772! Var. γ, Somerset Div.; upper part of Bruintjes Hoogte, Burchell, 3061! and without precise locality, Bowker!COAST REGION Var. β, Albany Div., Cooper, 3251! Var. γ, near the Zwartkops River, Ecklon and Zeyher, 1061! Alexandria Div.; between Rautenbachs Drift and Addo Drift, Burchell, 4208! Stutterheim Div.; Kabousie Mountain, 3500 ft., Murray in Herb. MacOwan! British Kaffraria, Cooper, 192! 402! Var. δ, Knysna Div.; “Kaatjes Kraal,” in the forest and by the rivulet, Burchell, 5232!EASTERN REGION Natal; Inanda, Wood, 1626! and without precise locality, Sutherland! Var. β, Griqualand East; mountains near Kokstad, 4300 ft., Tyson, 3158!KALAHARI REGION Orange Free State, Cooper, 3603!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Var. δ, Grey!

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