Asparagus buchananii Baker

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Status:	Native
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Type location:	Malawi
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Derivation of specific name:	buchananii: after John Buchanan (1855 – 1896), Scottish horticulturist, missionary, farmer and plant collector in Malawi, who became Acting British Consul to Central Africa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Buchanan_(settler).
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National distribution:	N,Z,T,MS,M
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Literature:	Demissew, S. (2008). Asparagaceae Flora Zambesiaca 13(1) Page 24. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 115. White, F. (1962). Forest Flora of Northern Rhodesia Oxford Univ. Press. Page 15. As Asparagus racemosus

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