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ASPARAGUS laricinus Burchell [family ASPARAGACEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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 laricinus Burchell [family ASPARAGACEAE], Trav. i. 537;—Bresl. Diss. No. 40; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 337; Kunth, Enum. v. 75; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 620.
Information
stems woody, subterete, much-branched; main prickles large, pungent, spreading; branches slender, ascending, pale, woody, zigzag; cladodia subulate, rigid, densely clustered, ascending, 3/4–1 in. long; flowers axillary, many in a cluster; pedicels 1/6– 1/4 in. long, articulated below the middle; perianth campanulate, 1/12– 1/8 in. long; segments oblong, obtuse; stamens nearly as long as the perianth; anthers oblong, 1/3– 1/4 the length of the filament; ovules 5–6 in a cell; berry globose, 1-seeded, 1/6 in. diam. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.? Bowker!COAST REGION Malmesbury Div.; near Hopefield, Bachmann, 1937! Hex River Berg, Rehmann, 2676!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; between Griqua Town and Witte Water, Burchell, 1971! Bechuanaland; Pellat Plains, between “Pintado Fontein and Thermometer Fontein,” Burchell, 2227!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Zeyher, Asparagus No. 21!
ASPARAGUS laricinus Burchell [family ASPARAGACEAE]
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