Taxon: Asparagus plumosus Baker

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Hortus 3, as A. setaceus; Eur Gard F, as A. setaceus; Dict Gard, as A. setaceus; F SAfr, as Protasparagus plumosus)
  
• Weed   (fide F Aust 49:505. 1994)
  

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Distributional range:

Native:

• AFRICA
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya
  South Tropical Africa: Zambia
  Southern Africa: South Africa - Cape Province [e.], KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal
  Africa [certainly native elsewhere in e. Africa]

Other:

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Agnew, A. D. Q. 1974. Upland Kenya wild flowers: a flora of the ferns and herbaceous flowering plants of upland Kenya. (Flow Kenya) [= A. setaceus (Kunth) Jessop].
• 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 plumosus (Baker) Oberm.].
• Bosser, J. M. et al., eds. 1976–. Flores des Mascareignes. (F Mascar) [= A. setaceus (Kunth) Jessop].
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China) [= A. setaceus (Kunth) Jessop].
• Dyer, R. A. et al., eds. 1963–. Flora of southern Africa. (F SAfr) [= Protasparagus plumosus (Baker) Oberm.].
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage. (Zander ed16) [= A. setaceus (Kunth) Jessop].
• 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. [= A. setaceus (Kunth) Jessop].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard) [= A. setaceus (Kunth) Jessop].
• Lebrun, J. P. & A. L. Stork. 1991–. Énumération des plantes à fleurs d'Afrique tropicale. (L Afr Trop)
• Obermeyer, A. A. 1983. Protasparagus Oberm., nom. nov.: new combinations. S. African J. Bot. 2:244. [= Protasparagus plumosus (Baker) Oberm.].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• White, F. 1962. Forest flora of Northern Rhodesia. (Trees NRhod)

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Synonyms:

• (=) Asparagus comorensis hort.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (≡) Protasparagus plumosus (Baker) Oberm.
  

Check other databases for Asparagus plumosus Baker:

• 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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