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Protasparagus pearsonii [family ASPARAGACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Protasparagus pearsonii [family ASPARAGACEAE]
Common names
Asparagus pearsonii Kies: 179 (1951b). A. abyssinicus auct. non Hochst. ex A. Rich.: H. Bol., L. Bol. & Glover: 103 (1915); R. Wordsworth et al.: 33 (1923). A. denudatus auct. non Kunth (1850): Jessop: 52 (1966); Solch et al.: 30 (1966).
Information
Erect or straggling, innocuous, pale yellow-green, hard suffrutex up to + 1 m high with stout basal stems and lax divaricate branches, often entangled above. Rhizome and roots not seen. Stems minutely and densely striate-papillate, glabrous with age. Branches and branchlets laxly spreading or deflexed, occasionally clustered on a swollen node. Spines absent or poorly developed at base of stem. Cladodes in fascicles °f 2—6, filiform, variable in size, up to 25 mm long, deciduous. Flowers appearing before or contemporary with cladodes, few to several in terminal umbels on short branchlets, occasionÂally some on the peduncle below; tepals ± 3 mm long, cream with a green keel; stalk ±3—7 mm long, articulated near the base, occasionally with 2 nodes. Stamens with yellow or orange anthers. Ovary with + 6 ovules per locule; globose, brown; style and stigmatic branches short. Berry ± 10 mm in diameter, blue to black.
Use
22. Protasparagus pearsonii (Kies) Oberm. in South African Journal of Botany 2: 244 (1983). Type: Namibia, Ramans Drift, Pearson 4003 (K, hole; PRE, SAM, iso.!, PRE, photo.!).
Range
Widespread in southern Namibia and in north-western Cape; common on sandy flats in cracks of boulders, or near watercourses. It appears to flower in late summer after rains, the cladodes maturing later. Map 18.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Protasparagus pearsonii [family ASPARAGACEAE]
Common names
Asparagus pearsonii Kies: 179 (1951b). A. abyssinicus auct. non Hochst. ex A. Rich.: H. Bol., L. Bol. & Glover: 103 (1915); R. Wordsworth et al.: 33 (1923). A. denudatus auct. non Kunth (1850): Jessop: 52 (1966); Solch et al.: 30 (1966).
Information
Erect or straggling, innocuous, pale yellow-green, hard suffrutex up to + 1 m high with stout basal stems and lax divaricate branches, often entangled above. Rhizome and roots not seen. Stems minutely and densely striate-papillate, glabrous with age. Branches and branchlets laxly spreading or deflexed, occasionally clustered on a swollen node. Spines absent or poorly developed at base of stem. Cladodes in fascicles °f 2—6, filiform, variable in size, up to 25 mm long, deciduous. Flowers appearing before or contemporary with cladodes, few to several in terminal umbels on short branchlets, occasionÂally some on the peduncle below; tepals ± 3 mm long, cream with a green keel; stalk ±3—7 mm long, articulated near the base, occasionally with 2 nodes. Stamens with yellow or orange anthers. Ovary with + 6 ovules per locule; globose, brown; style and stigmatic branches short. Berry ± 10 mm in diameter, blue to black.
Use
22. Protasparagus pearsonii (Kies) Oberm. in South African Journal of Botany 2: 244 (1983). Type: Namibia, Ramans Drift, Pearson 4003 (K, hole; PRE, SAM, iso.!, PRE, photo.!).
Range
Widespread in southern Namibia and in north-western Cape; common on sandy flats in cracks of boulders, or near watercourses. It appears to flower in late summer after rains, the cladodes maturing later. Map 18.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Protasparagus pearsonii [family ASPARAGACEAE]
Common names
Asparagus pearsonii Kies: 179 (1951b). A. abyssinicus auct. non Hochst. ex A. Rich.: H. Bol., L. Bol. & Glover: 103 (1915); R. Wordsworth et al.: 33 (1923). A. denudatus auct. non Kunth (1850): Jessop: 52 (1966); Solch et al.: 30 (1966).
Information
Erect or straggling, innocuous, pale yellow-green, hard suffrutex up to + 1 m high with stout basal stems and lax divaricate branches, often entangled above. Rhizome and roots not seen. Stems minutely and densely striate-papillate, glabrous with age. Branches and branchlets laxly spreading or deflexed, occasionally clustered on a swollen node. Spines absent or poorly developed at base of stem. Cladodes in fascicles °f 2—6, filiform, variable in size, up to 25 mm long, deciduous. Flowers appearing before or contemporary with cladodes, few to several in terminal umbels on short branchlets, occasionÂally some on the peduncle below; tepals ± 3 mm long, cream with a green keel; stalk ±3—7 mm long, articulated near the base, occasionally with 2 nodes. Stamens with yellow or orange anthers. Ovary with + 6 ovules per locule; globose, brown; style and stigmatic branches short. Berry ± 10 mm in diameter, blue to black.
Use
22. Protasparagus pearsonii (Kies) Oberm. in South African Journal of Botany 2: 244 (1983). Type: Namibia, Ramans Drift, Pearson 4003 (K, hole; PRE, SAM, iso.!, PRE, photo.!).
Range
Widespread in southern Namibia and in north-western Cape; common on sandy flats in cracks of boulders, or near watercourses. It appears to flower in late summer after rains, the cladodes maturing later. Map 18.
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