Asparagus minutiflorus Baker

Roots tuberous; tubers distant or lateral on the roots. Stems erect, almost straight, softly woody, ridged, usually scabrid along the ridges, pale, up to about 50 cm long. Branches usually absent. Branchlets straight usually fascicled, ascending, branched, very narrow, spineless, ridged, scabrid, up to about 5 cm long. Cladodes 3-angled, up to about 10 mm long and about 0.2 mm thick, up to about 8-nate laterally but more numerous terminally, slightly arcuate. Spines usually present on the stems, slender, terete, pungent, more or less straight and spreading, the longest from 5-12 mm long, brown. Peduncles borne on stems and less often on branches, solitary or paired, about 3 mm long. Pedicels usually 2-or 3-nate and terminal, but occasionally lateral and solitary, borne in the axils of prominent bracts, about 1 mm long, articulated near the middle. Perianth segments oblong-obovate, 2-3 mm long; the apex of the inner whorl dentate. Stamens nearly as long as the perianth segments; anthers minute. Style shortly divided, about 1 mm long; ovary about 1 mm long. Fruit with a smooth surface, 1-seeded, up to about 7 mm diameter.