The filaments are white or greenish white, 7 10 mm long, anthers yellow, about 1 mm long; style yellowish-green, 14 20 mm long; stigma lobes 5-8 and about 1.2-2.5 mm long; ovary 3 7 mm long at anthesis; scales few, membranous, scarious-margined, minutely toothed or fringed . The fruit is green, turning red, ovoid, dry, and 0.8-2.2 cm long.
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The subfamily contains only two genera, " Asparagus " with some 160 290 species, and " Hemiphylacus " with five species . ( " Hemiphylacus " used to be placed in the Asphodeloideae / Asphodelaceae . ) They are distributed in Europe, Africa and Asia, with a few species in Australasia and Mexico . " Asparagus " has small paper-like ( scarious ) leaves at the base of leaf-like branches which act as the photosynthetic organs ( phylloclades ).
