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

Erect shrubs or chamaephytes with one ascending stem up to ±0.8 m high. Rhizome compact; roots cylindrical. Stem usually bare at the nodes, woody. Branches thin, curving upwards, somewhat zigzagging, bearing exserted, sharp, thin, solitary spines up to ±20 mm long, rarely a short lateral spine may be present at the base; branchlets few to many at the nodes of the branches, 15-20(-30) mm long, covered by overlapping cladodes. Cladodes ±3 mm long, terete, slightly swollen and obtuse above, apiculate, minutely and densely pubescent, dull green. Flowers apical, 1 or 2 on branchlets, just exserted at anthesis, outer tepals with a dorsal, broad, pubescent midrib; stalk ±2 mm long, the disc 1 mm below perianth. Stamens yellow. Ovary with 6 ovules in each locule; style and stigmas short. Berry not seen.