Asparagus alopecurus (Oberm.) Malcomber & Sebsebe

Chamaephyte with erect annual stems ±0.5 m tall, slender, attenuate above, covered by a feathery 'cylinder' of much abbreviated, densely leafy branches, appearing 'fox-tail'-shaped. Rhizome creeping, long, densely covered by numerous allantoid, shortly stalked root tubers, placed in all directions, up to 40 x 10 mm, continued below as normal thin roots, densely covered by a velamen of root hairs. Stems ridged, scale leaves persisting. Branches ±30 mm long, ascending, overlapping. Phylloclades narrowly linear, ±12 x 0.5 mm, glossy, yellow-green, margin densely ciliate, apex mucronate. Flowers solitary on the short branches; pedicels 1 mm long with the disc below perianth. Tepals free, connivent, forming a tube, curved outwards above, linear, obtuse, ±7 mm long, white with a green midrib, margin of outer tepals densely, shortly ciliate, inner smooth. Stamens with filaments fused to tepals in lower half, outer somewhat shorter. Ovary oblong-ovoid with 4 ovules in each locule; style as long as ovary, stigmas small, curved outwards. Berry several-seeded, ±7 mm in diameter, red? Flowering in winter.