Asparagus asparagoides
Asparagus asparagoides
Asparagus asparagoides is a plant of the genus Asparagus (Asparagus ) in the family of asparagus plants ( Asparagaceae ). The specific epithet is derived from the Greek word asparagoides - oides for, like ' and the name of the genus Asparagus from.
Description
Asparagus asparagoides is a climbing, rich branched, perennial, deciduous or semi- deciduous plant with shiny green phylloclades. Your cylindrical rhizome has numerous lateral fusiform and arranged radially tubers. The various-sized tubers are up to 6 inches long and 2 inches wide. The sinewy, twisted shoots are smooth or ridged and reach a length of up to 2 meters. Side shoots are short and have pearl-like ribs. The phylloclades are different in size and shape. They are ovate - acuminate, up to 4 inches long and 2 inches wide, flat or folded and bent. The phylloclades are vieladerig, but usually with three distinct veins on each side. The edge of the phylloclades is smooth or denticulate tiny.
The up to 1 cm long peduncle and is divided below the perianth. The perigone up to 1 centimeter long, and be formed in the lower half of a bent-back up the tube. The upright stamens are inclined together. Their stamens are widened down to two small, spread-out teeth. The anthers are red. The stalked pear-shaped ovary is narrowed into a stylus, which is as long as the ovary. The trays are up to about six ovules available. The short, spreading scar is ciliated. The heyday of Asparagus asparagoides ranges from mid-winter to spring.
The spherical fruit have a diameter of about 1 cm and usually contain many seeds
Systematics and distribution
Asparagus is asparagoides to Namibia, and South Africa in tropical Africa in the Succulent Karoo, in thickets and savannas. In Australia, the species is wild and is considered a problematic weed.
The first description as Medeola asparagoides by Carl Linnaeus published Species Plantarum in 1753. George Claridge Druce put the type in 1914 in the genus Asparagus.
More nomenklatorisches synonyms are Myrsiphyllum asparagoides (L.) Willd. (1808 ) and elide asparagoides (L.) Kerguélen (1993). Were included as a synonym in kind Medeola angustifolia Mill ( 1768), Dracaena medeoloides Lf ( 1782 ), Asparagus medeoloides ( L. F. ) Thunb. (1794 ), Ruscus volubilis Thunb. (1794 ), Medeola latifolia Salisb. (1796 ), Myrsiphyllum angustifolium (Mill.) Willd. (1808 ), Myrsiphyllum falciform Kunth (1850), Elachanthera sewelliae F.Muell. (1886 ), Asparagus medeoloides var angustifolius (Mill.) Baker ( 1896), Asparagus medeoloides var falciformis ( Kunth ) Baker ( 1896), Luzuriaga sewelliae ( F.Muell. ) K.Krause (1930) and Asparagus kuisibensis Dinter ( 1931).