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Taxon: Asparagus falcatus L.

Genus: Asparagus
Family: Asparagaceae. Also placed in: Liliaceae
Nomen number: 5511
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:313. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 19-May-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 02-Dec-1998
Species priority site is: Northeast Regional PI Station (NE9).
Accessions: 4 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • aspargo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
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Economic importance:


Distributional range:

Native:
  • AFRICA
    Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia; Somalia
    East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania
    West-Central Tropical Africa: Rwanda
    South Tropical Africa: Mozambique
    Southern Africa: South Africa - Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal; Swaziland
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Arabian Peninsula: Yemen
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: Sri Lanka

References:

  • Agnew, A. D. Q. 1974. Upland Kenya wild flowers: a flora of the ferns and herbaceous flowering plants of upland Kenya. (Flow Kenya)
  • 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)
  • Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
  • Dyer, R. A. et al., eds. 1963–. Flora of southern Africa. (F SAfr) [= Protasparagus falcatus (L.) Oberm.].
  • Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. (Zander ed14)
  • Fellingham, A. C. & N. L. Meyer. 1995. New combinations and a complete list of Asparagus species in southern Africa (Asparagaceae). Bothalia 25:207.
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000) (F Ethiop)
  • Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
  • Obermeyer, A. A. 1983. Protasparagus Oberm., nom. nov.: new combinations. S. African J. Bot. 2:244. [= Protasparagus falcatus (L.) Oberm.].
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia. (F Somalia)
  • Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora. (Eur Gard F)
  • Wood, J. R. I. 1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen. (F Yemen)
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Check other databases for Asparagus falcatus L.:

  • 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
  • Google Images 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.

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National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?5511 (21 November 2009)

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