Asparagus juniperoides Engl.

Erect chamaephytes with stems up to 0.5 m tall, covered by a 'cylinder' of short 'leafy' branches (viz. phylloclades) ±40 mm in diameter ('foxtail' habit). Rhizome dorsiventral, creeping, bearing numerous long roots which form fusiform swellings ±30 mm long towards root tips, up to 120 mm away from rhizome, densely covered by a velamen of root hairs when young. Branches short, erect, ±10-30 mm long, overlapping placed in axil of a short membranous erect scale leaf. Phylloclades solitary, linear, ±10 x 2 mm, apiculate, margin smooth, bright shiny green. Flowers axillary, solitary, on peduncles ±1 mm long. Tepals narrowly oblong, ±6 mm long, forming a short tube below, curved outwards in upper half, outer ciliate. Stamens with outer shorter than inner, filaments fused to tepals in lower half, erect. Ovary obovoid with ±10 ovules in each locule; style about as long as ovary; stigmas apical. Berry ±5 mm diameter, several-seeded, red.