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Asparagus africanus var. puberulus

Botanic Family

Asparagaceae

Author

(Baker) Sebsebe

Common Names

• Ngoto (Kisafwa)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Botswana
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Kenya
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Tanzania
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

• Nov (Tanzania)

Climbing twining sub-shrub, pubescent branches. Leaves with pungent spur, setaceous cladodes to 12mm long. 25mm diameter white hermaphrodite axillary flowers to 4mm long in umbels

Medicinal uses

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• Kew
• JLS
• Mobot