Taxon: Asparagus densiflorus (Kunth) Jessop

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Zander ed17; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Gene sources: potential for disease resistance in asparagus   (fide Wild Crop Rel Veg 3:32. 2011)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of asparagus   (based on crossing barriers with Asparagus officinalis fide Wild Crop Rel Veg 3:32. 2011)
  
• Weed   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Southern Africa: Lesotho; South Africa - Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape; Swaziland

• also cultivated

References:

• Arnold, T. H. & B. C. De Wet, eds. 1993. Plants of southern Africa: names and distribution. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa no. 62. [= Protasparagus densiflorus (Kunth) Oberm.].
• Dyer, R. A. et al., eds. 1963–. Flora of southern Africa. [= Protasparagus densiflorus (Kunth) Oberm.].
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Fellingham, A. C. & N. L. Meyer. 1995. New combinations and a complete list of Asparagus species in southern Africa (Asparagaceae). Bothalia 25:206.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• González Castañón, M. L. & A. Falavigna. 2008. Asparagus germplasm and interspecific hybridization. Acta Hort. 776:325.
• Huttleston, D. G. 1970. The names of three commonly cultivated ornamental asparaguses (Liliaceae). Baileya 17:59.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Kanno, A. & J. Yokoyama. 2011. Chapter 3. Asparagus. In: Kole, C., ed., Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, vegetables. 23–42.
• Kubota, S. et al. 2012. Molecular phylogeny of the genus Asparagus (Asparagaceae) explains interspecific crossability between the garden asparagus (A. officinalis) and other Asparagus species. Theor. Appl. Genet. 124:345–354.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. 118.
• Malcomber, S. T. & D. Sebsebe. 1993. The status of Protasparagus and Myrsiphyllum in the Asparagaceae. Kew Bull. 48:68, 76.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.

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Synonyms:

• (≡) Asparagopsis densiflorus Kunth (basionym)
  
• (=) Asparagus myriocladus Baker
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (≡) Protasparagus densiflorus (Kunth) Oberm.
  

Check other web resources for Asparagus densiflorus (Kunth) Jessop:

• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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.

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