Asparagus pearsonii
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Roots
30 Sep 2006
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Flowers
19 Mar 2007
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Fruit, leaves and flowers
19 Mar 2007
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Habit
27 Apr 2008
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Leaves
27 Apr 2008
| Family: | Asparagaceae |
| Full name: | Asparagus pearsonii Kies |
| ID status: | ID not 100% certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | Wild asparagus |
| Synonym(s): | Protasparagus pearsonii (Kies) Oberm. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | 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 of 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, occasionally 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. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora of Southern Africa) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
