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

Erect shrubs ±
 high; stems and cladodes minutely papillate-ribbed. Rhizome typical, side roots with tubers. Stems few, erect, greyish. Spines present below branches, branchlets, cladode fascicles and flower fascicles. Branches fairly short, ascending; branchlets bearing cladode fascicles. Cladodes erect, 51-152 mm a fascicle, 6-angled, ±20 x 1 mm, somewhat curved. Flowers white, in a compound, bare raceme without cladodes, or placed along branch-lets below cladode fascicle and above spine, usually 2 or 76 mm divergent fascicles; tepals narrowly oblong, ±5 mm long, apex obtuse, shallowly dentate, outer tepals recurved; pedicel ±2 mm long, discoid above, attached to attenuate discoid base of perianth. Stamens attached to tepals below, bearing large (1.5 mm) dark purple anthers. Ovary with 8 ovules in each locule; globose; style short with 3 short stigmas. Berry with 4 ovules in each locule, ±10 mm in diameter, green to red.