Taxon: Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop

Common names:

• asparagus-fern   (Source: Hortus 3 )
  
• asperge plumeuse   (Source: L Noms French ed6 )
  
• fern asparagus   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• lace-fern   (Source: Hortus 3 )
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Eur Gard F)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Pl. Protect. Quart. 11(2):49-50. 1996)
  

Distributional range:

Native:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania
  South Tropical Africa: Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana [s.]; Lesotho; South Africa - Cape Province, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal; Swaziland

Other:

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Arnold, T. H. & B. C. De Wet, eds. 1993. Plants of southern Africa: names and distribution. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa no. 62. (Pl SAfr) [= Protasparagus setaceus (Kunth) Oberm].
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
• Demilly, D. et al. 1996. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 6. (L Noms French ed6)
• Dyer, R. A. et al., eds. 1963–. Flora of southern Africa. (F SAfr) [= Protasparagus setaceus (Kunth) Oberm].
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• Fellingham, A. C. & N. L. Meyer. 1995. New combinations and a complete list of Asparagus species in southern Africa (Asparagaceae). Bothalia 25:208.
• Huttleston, D. G. 1970. Baileya 17:59.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Keighery, G. 1996. Pl. Protect. Quart. 11(2):50.
• Lebrun, J. P. & A. L. Stork. 1991–. Énumération des plantes à fleurs d'Afrique tropicale. (L Afr Trop)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Obermeyer, A. A. 1983. Protasparagus Oberm., nom. nov.: new combinations. S. African J. Bot. 2:244. [= Protasparagus setaceus (Kunth) Oberm].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora. (Eur Gard F)

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Synonyms:

• (≡) Asparagopsis setacea Kunth (basionym)
  
• (≡) Protasparagus setaceus (Kunth) Oberm.
  

Check other databases for Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop:

• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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