Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce

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Name scientific

Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce, Bot. Exch. Club Brit. Isles Rep. 3: 413 (1914)

Preferred name

Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce

Taxonomy reference

Healy, A. J.; Edgar, E. 1980: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. III. Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous and Spathaceous Monocotyledons. Government Printer, Wellington.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Exotic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

(L.) Druce

Original authors

Combination authors

Druce

Publication place

Druce, C.G. 1914: Supplement to Botanical Exchange Club Report for 1913. Botanical Exchange Club of the British Isles. Report. Manchester, England 3(5): 405–440.

Year published

1914

Publication page

413

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Medeola asparagoides L.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Asparagus asparagoides

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asparagales

Family

Asparagaceae

Genus

Asparagus

Species

asparagoides

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Synonyms

Descriptions

Healy, A. J.; Edgar, E. 1980: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. III. Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous and Spathaceous Monocotyledons. Government Printer, Wellington.

Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce

Description

Summer-green scrambling or twining perennial; roots tuberous. Stems to 3 m long, tortuous, green, or slightly woody and brownish, branches spreading, angled, scabrid on angles. Scale-leaves scarious, entire, basal spur absent. Cladodes solitary at each node, 1-3.5 cm × 4-15 mm, flattened, broadly ovate-lanceolate, acute, with c. 7 prominent veins usually spreading horizontally. Flowers 1-2, axillary, 5-6 mm long, greenish-white, pedicels c. 5-8 mm long. Berry globose, 6-10 mm diam., red. Seeds 2-8, c. 2 mm diam., black.

Taxonomic concepts

Name

Cited name

Reference

Preferred name

Parent name

Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce

Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce

Biosecurity New Zealand (2008)

Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce

Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce

Biosecurity New Zealand (2012)

Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce

Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce

Biosecurity New Zealand (4 Aug 2011)

Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce

Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce

Healy, A. J.; Edgar, E. (1980)

Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce

Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce

Howell, C. (2008)

Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce

Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce

Ministry for Primary Industries (23 Feb 2017)

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Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce

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Asparagus asparagoides (L.) W.Wight

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Metadata

Record id

127990a4-e755-4aca-9297-a77cb07f61b0

Record class

scientific name

Record source

Names_Plants

Date added

1 January 2000

Date last updated

31 December 2023

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