Asparagus ovatus T.M.Salter

Scandent, with twining branches up to 1.0-1.5 m tall. Rhizome compact, scaly, woody with long roots extending in all directions, bearing numerous hard, swollen, fusiform tubers ±50-100 x 20 mm, far removed from rhizome; much smaller in young plants; tubers may bring forth young plants at their proximal ends. Phylloclades deciduous, ovate, 30 x 15 mm but variable in size, many-nerved, shiny. Flowers 1-3, beside the base of a phylloclade; pedicels ±10 mm, articulated near base of flower. Perianth ±6 mm, tepals reflexed near centre. Stamens with filaments flattened, erect, bearing a small basal spur on each side. Ovary oblong, with ±8-10 ovules in each locule; style and stigmas just exserted from staminal column. Berry globose, 10 mm in diameter, red.