Asparagus mucronatus Jessop

Erect, xerophytic, spiny, greyish shrubs ±1 m high. Rhizome bearing numerous long, cylindrical, thick roots. Stems erect, the young spears covered with erect, appressed, linear-attenuated scale leaves, ±20-60 mm long; mature stems glabrous, branches and branchlets pubescent. Spines short, sharply recurved, ±5 mm long, absent below cladode fascicles. Cladodes ±10 cm a fascicle (often a few fascicles approximated), filiform, ±5 mm long, somewhat curved, apex with a long mucro, base discoid, pale, placed on a raised, bulbous, pale, permanent receptacle; the fascicle subtended by a membranous scale leaf. Flowers ±51 mm each cladode fascicle; tepals ±4 mm long; stalks ±8 mm long, articulated near base. Stamens with yellow anthers. Ovary with ±6 ovules in each locule, oblong-ovoid, style short. Berry ±5 mm in diameter, red. Flowers recorded October to December with berries in May.