Tall woody climber or tangled shrub ; up to 5(-6) m high . Stems straight , smooth , shiny yellow to greyish , glabrous , ribbed ; spines 3-5 mm long on stems and main branches . Cladodes in fascicles of 2-6 , flexible , 8-25 mm , subulate , green , curving upwards . Inflorescences solitary , in simple racemes , in multi-budded axils of stems and branches ; pedicels articulated at or below the middle ; bracts 1 . 5 mm , ovate , concave , glabrous , membranous , sometimes falling quickly . Flowers green or white ; perianth greenish to white , 3 . 5-4 mm , oblong , obtuse ; stamens shorter than the perianth ; anthers orange to reddish ; ovary 3-locular ; style with 3-branched stigma . Fruits berry , 8-10 mm in diameter , shortly stipitate , green turning red at maturity , 1(-2)-seeded . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 4) .
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Asparagopsis floribunda Kunth
Protasparagus racemosus (Willd.) Oberm.
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Buttermilk Root
Climbing Asparagus
Water Root
Wild Asparagus
Wild Carrot
Satavar
Satawari
Shatavari
Shatamull
Shatawari
Not recorded yet.
Ghazanfar, S. (2018). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.4: Hydrocharitaceae – Orchidaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 56). ISBN 9789492663153 ISSN 0779-2387. https://en.wikipedia.org https://worldofsucculents.com POWO (2023). "Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
