Asparagus multituberosus

Asparagus multituberosus
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae)
Subfamily :	Asparagoideae
Genre :	Asparagus
Type :	Asparagus multituberosus
Scientific name
	Asparagus multituberosus
	RADyer

Asparagus multituberosus is a plant of the genus asparagus ( Asparagus ) in the family of asparagaceae (Asparagaceae). The specific epithet multituberosus is derived from the Latin words multi for 'many' and tuberosus for 'bulbous' and refers to the numerous tuberous roots.

description

Asparagus multituberosus is a climbing , richly branched, perennial plant that can reach heights of up to 40 centimeters. Their thin, horizontal, up to 50 centimeters long rhizome has dense, overlapping, small, spindle-shaped root tubers . The root tubers are up to 1 inch long and 0.3 inches wide. The egg-shaped to heart-shaped, multi-veined phyllocladia are up to 2.5 centimeters long. There is a little pointed tip at its tip. The edge of the phyllocladia is warty.

The one to three axillary flowers arise from membrane-like scale sheets. The curved, up to 0.5 centimeter long peduncle is divided below the flower cover. The tepals are about 0.7 inches long. They form a wide tube below and are spread out above. The stamens are just as long as the tepals. Their flat stamens are broadened at the base. The egg-shaped ovary contains each subject up to twelve ovules . There are three outwardly curved styluses . The apical scar is warty. The flowering time of Asparagus multituberosus extends from winter to spring.

Nothing is known about the fruits and seeds .

Systematics and distribution

Asparagus multituberosus is distributed in the South African provinces of the North Cape and Western Cape in the Renosterveld and Fynbos .

The first description by Robert Allen Dyer was published in 1954. A nomenclature synonym is Myrsiphyllum multituberosum (RADyer) Oberm. (1984).

proof

literature

Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld : Myrsiphyllum multituberosum . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 240 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 160.
↑ Bothalia . Volume 6, No. 2, 1954, p. 442. ( PDF )

Web links

Asparagus multituberosus in the Red List of South African Plants

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 160.

[2] Bothalia . Volume 6, No. 2, 1954, p. 442. ( PDF )