Asparagus concinnus (Baker) Kies

Small shrub up to 1 m high, erect stems from a hard rhizome. Stems clearly ribbed, minutely pubescent or glabrous, with recurved spines up to ±5 mm long along whole length. Branches single from nodes, usually shallowly zigzagging, with short spines; branchlets multinoded, bearing numerous cladode fascicles. Cladodes appear to be perennial, fascicles each with (8-)12-16 cladodes, these more or less equal in length, 4-9 mm long, triangular in cross section. Flowers inside cladode fascicles, 1 or 2(3) per fascicle; tepals ±3 mm long, creamy white; stalks recurved, articulated in lower part, 4-6 mm long. Stamens with linear filaments, colour not recorded. Berry ±6 mm in diameter, red.