| Asparagus lignosus | |
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| Asparagus lignosus has pale-to-white branches and tufts of cylindrical leaves. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Asparagaceae |
| Subfamily: | Asparagoideae |
| Genus: | Asparagus |
| Species: | A. lignosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Asparagus lignosus | |
Asparagus lignosus ("Katdoring") is a thorny, spindly creeper of the Asparagus genus, that is indigenous to the Western Cape Province of South Africa. [3]
A rigid, upright shrub reaching 80 cm in height. The branches are zig-zagged, and pale grey-green to white.
At each node along the branch, there is a single recurved 5mm thorn.
The stiff, linear (length 10-20mm), cylindrical, spine-tipped leaves are in tufts.
The flowers are white with a green strip on each tepal. The anthers are orange. They appear singly or in pairs. [4]
This species is part of a group of closely related African Asparagus species, including Asparagus rubicundus , Asparagus concinnus and Asparagus microraphis . [5]
This species is indigenous to the Western Cape Province, South Africa.
Its distribution is from Clanwilliam in the far north-west and Cape Town in the west, eastwards across the Little Karoo and Overberg regions, as far as Mossel Bay in the south-east.
It occurs in rocky sandstone slopes, as well as rocky loamy soils in fynbos or renosterveld vegetation on lower slopes and flats.
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