Vegetative key to the families
Vegetative Key Vegetative key to the families
LEAVES REDUCED TO SCALES ON THE AERIAL STEMS
Chlorophyll present (some root parasites with a yellowish tinge in the cladodes)
Scale-leaves all bearing leaf-like cladodes in the axils Asparagaceae
Cladodes terete, c. 5 mm diam.
Cladodes flat, most more than 1 mm wide