Swaziland's Flora Database:
Species Information
Asparagus virgatus Baker
(name current 2016)
umshanveto
Growth form: Climber
Swaziland distribution: various
Schedule C
Medicinal
Other uses
Description (Compton's Flora of Swaziland*):
Asparagus virgatus - Stem erect, straight, up to 1 m high; branches ascending, not again branched. Cladodes in clusters of three or more, up to 2,5 cm long, usually straight. Spines replaced by short blunt spurs. Inflorescences terminal and axillary. Perianth segments yellowish-green, up to 4 mm long. Fruit c 5 mm diam, red, one-seeded.
* Where species names have changed, these have been matched according to herbarium specimens quoted in this publication.
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