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

A woody, glabrous scrambler up to 1 m high with the stems and branches slightly to strongly zigzagging (chamaephyte?). Rhizome and roots not seen. Stem slender, smooth. Spines absent, the scale leaves membranous, reddish brown, attenuate. Branches zigzagging between cladode fascicles and giving off very short branchlets which end in a solitary apical cladode fascicle, sessile in younger upper part. Cladodes 2-6(-10) mm long. Flowers 1-3, small, exserted from the apical cladode fascicle; tepals oblong, 2-3 mm long, white; stalk 4 mm long, articulated in lower half. Stamens with broad filaments and yellow anthers. Ovary with ±4 ovules in each locule; obovoid, dark; style and stigmas short. Berry not seen.