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Name

Identification
Asparagus scandens Thunb. [family ASPARAGACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for ASPARAGUS consanguineus 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 consanguineus Baker [family ASPARAGACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 615
Asparagopsis consanguinea Kunth [family ], Enum. v. 76.
Asparagus scandens [family ASPARAGACEAE], Herb. Drège, non Thunb.
Asparagus declinatus Eckl. and Zeyh. [family ASPARAGACEAE], Exsic. non Linn.
Information
stems slender, terete, glabrous, green, sarmentose; lower leaves with only a small deltoid spur; branches pinnate, spreading or deflexed, flexuose, with very slender deflexed branchlets; cladodia filiform, bright green, flexuose, about 1/4 in. long, 10–30 in a cluster; pedicels 1–2-nate, cernuous, about as long as the cladodia, articulated at the apex; perianth campanulate, 1/6 in. long; segments oblong, obtuse, spreading falcately; stamens nearly as long as the perianth; ovules 5–6 in a cell. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Calvinia Div.; limestone hills and karoo-like depressions near Bitter Fontein, 3000–4000 ft., Zeyher, 1675!COAST REGION Piquetberg Div.; between Krom River and Pieters Fontein on the Piquet Berg, below 1000 ft., Drège!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg! Mund!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; stony places near Klip Fontein, 3000 ft., Bolus, 6589!

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