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

Erect or scandent shrubs, glabrous, greyish green, intricately branched, 0.5-1.5 m high, with long thin divergent branchlets. Rhizome small, woody. Roots with fusiform tubers on side roots near rhizome. Stem erect, ±3 mm in diameter, closely beset with small, retrorse spines with a triangular, appressed upper scale. Branches and branchlets sympodioid, terminating in 1-3 cladodes. Cladodes solitary, paired at stem apices, filiform, ±30-40 mm long, stiff, apiculate. Flowers in a compact fascicle of 15-51 cm upper node, flanked by 2 divergent cladodes which much exceed flower fascicles, 'deep mauve, paling later' (fide Ward 12090 cm PRE); tepals broadly linear, ±4 mm long; stalk 5-6 mm long, articulated in lower half. Stamens typical. Ovary with ±4 ovules in each locule; narrowly ovoid, attenuated below and above into a long style; stigma apical, swollen. Berries ±5 mm in diameter, yellow when ripe (fide Strey 18941 cm PRE).