Asparagus buchananii Baker

Tall, glabrous, densely branched, woody climbers. Rhizome compact, woody, bearing numerous roots swollen above. Stems several, up to ±3 m long and up to ±15 mm in diameter at base, shiny yellowish brown. Spines on stems straight, reflexed, flattened, ±30-60 mm long, those on branches progressively smaller, absent from branchlets. Cladodes on short branchlets in fascicles of 2-6, unequal in length, filiform, up to ±12-30 mm long, usually absent at anthesis. Flowers in simple or compound racemes, tepals white, ±2 mm long, reflexed, flower base elongate (pericladium), lengthening with age to 1 mm long; bract enveloping stalk, inflated at the base, membranous, dentate, acuminate; stalk articulated at apex, ±3 mm long. Stamens with flattened filaments, anthers yellow or dark. Ovary with ±4 ovules in each locule; dark, narrowed below, obtuse above; style short, with 3 short obtuse stigmas. Berry shortly stipitate, usually 3-seeded, tepals persisting at base.