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Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop

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Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop (1966)
Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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(Kunth) Jessop
Kunth
Jessop
1966
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Asparagus setaceus

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setaceus

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Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop

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.

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Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop
Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop
Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop
Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop
Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop
Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop
Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop
Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop

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Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop
Cook Islands
Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop
Cook Islands
Rarotonga
Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop
Niue
Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop
Tonga

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editorial
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.

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1 January 2000
25 July 2008
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