Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop

Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop

Synonymy

    • =Asparagus plumosus Baker

    Distribution

    GR(Pe

    Greece (Peloponnisos present)

    Status

    Alien / Established

    Chorology

    [South African]

    Life-form

    Chamaephyte

    Habitat

    Woodlands and scrub

    IUCN category

    Not Evaluated

    Presidential Decree 67/81

    No

    Notes

    Native to E & S Africa (C Ethiopia to South Africa)
    This species is found in Nomos & Eparchia Korinthias: coastal forest of Pefkias, near Xylokastro, ca. 10 m, 38°05'N, 22°38'E, 24.12.2011, fruiting, Sfikas 14077 (herb. Sfikas). Cultivated as an ornamental plant in Greece as in other parts of the Mediterranean. This appears to be the first record of it locally naturalized
    in Greece

    Reference:
    • Tan K., Sfikas G., Adamopoulos Th., Zieliński J. (2012). Reports 114-116 in: Vladimirov V., Dane F., Matevski V. & Tan K. New Floristic Records in the Balkans 18 (1). – Phytol. Balcan. 18 (1): 84-85.

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