Asparagus bayeri (Oberm.) Fellingham & N.L.Mey.

Small, erect shrubs ±1 m high, bluish grey, very spiny. Rhizome and roots probably typical as for subgenus. Stems erect, smooth, dark grey. Branches ascending, ±1.8 m long, closely beset with spreading, spiny branchlets ±20-40 mm long, bearing numerous spreading spinules and cladode fascicles. Cladodes persisting, usually in paired fascicles at the nodes, ±4-10 per fascicle, filiform, ±6 mm long, somewhat curved, bluish grey. Flower clusters paired, beside cladode fascicles, subsessile, placed on a contracted scaly branchlet. Flowers 2-4 (not seen); stalks ±1 mm long, apex discoid. Fruit most likely a nutlet.