Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop

Details

Name scientific

Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop (1966)

Preferred name

Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Exotic

Absent

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Combination authors

Jessop

Original authors

Kunth

Authors

(Kunth) Jessop

Year published

1966

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Asparagus setaceus

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asparagales

Family

Asparagaceae

Genus

Asparagus

Species

setaceus

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Asparagus fern

Descriptions

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

Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop

Description

Slender, scrambling or climbing perennial. Stems to 2 m long, ± woody below, green and much-branched above; branches widely spreading with branchlets and cladodes all lying in one plane. Scale-leaves scarious, entire, basal spur to 2.5 mm long, grey-brown, finely pointed, reflexed. Cladodes needle-like, extremely fine, 3-7 mm long, 7-20 at each node. Flowers terminal, 1-4, white. Berry globose, ± 6 mm diam., purple-black. Seeds 1-3, ± 3 mm diam., globose, black.

Taxonomic concepts

Name

Cited name

Reference

Preferred name

Parent name

Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop

Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop

Biosecurity New Zealand (2012)

Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop

Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop

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

Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop

Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop

Howell, C. (2008)

Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop

Collections

Determined name

Country

Geographic region

Indicative databased records

Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop

Cook Islands

Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop

Cook Islands

Rarotonga

Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop

Niue

Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop

Tonga

Notes

Note type

editorial

Note text

This name was misapplied to Asparagus plumosus Baker. A. plumosus is a very distinct and recognisable "form". It has less dense cladode-clusters and the branches, branchlets and cladodes typically flattened into one plane.

Note reference

Flora of Australia. ABRS/CSIRO, Canberra and Melbourne.

Metadata

Record id

3629b5ff-ea08-4be2-9c5e-7c28fa85c941

Record class

scientific name

Record source

Names_Plants

Date added

1 January 2000

Date last updated

25 July 2008

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