Asparagus spp.
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Family: Asparagaceae 1 entry
Asparagus officinalis
{ka.ัwut}
Asparagus spp.
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Burmese-Myanmar transcript names:
Agri.Dept.2000 01-0018:
{ka.ัhwut} - with {ha.hto:}, fam: Liliaceae
Chklist: Kannyut
LSR 003:
{ka.ัhwut} - with {ha.hto:}, fam: Liliaceae
FAO : NL
KS-TMN 066: Kanyut , fam: Asparagaceae
Nagathein 1-036 :
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)
{ka.ัhwut (shi๑.ma.tak)} - with {ha.hto:}
UHM : NL
UKT: Nagathein 1-036 spelled
Myanmar-Script Spelling
Official Myanmar Dictionaries :
{ka.ัwut}
- 
--TravPo-M-Dict 001
{ka.ัwut}
- a kind of asparagus, Asparagus officinalis -- Myan-Engl-Dict 002
{ka.ัwut ping} -- Myan-Ortho 001
UKT: Though some of the Myanmar sources on plants spelled the name
Chklist data:
Asparagus officinalis L. Habit: Herb. Distribution:
Cultivated. Common Names: Common asparagus, Kannyut
Hindi 
सतावर
{hsa.ta-war} -- Nagathein, transliteration from Devanagari into Myanmar given by Nagathein.
Sanskrit
UKT: Referring to the Hindi-Devanagari name, note that the first character is स(U0938) corresponding to Myanmar r6c5
{tha.} and not r2c2
{hsa.}. This would give us a transliteration of {tha.ta-war}. Nagathein had given the transcription (not transliteration) of Hindi into Burmese.
English common name used in Myanmar
Agri.Dept.2000 -- Asparagus
Chklist:
LSR -- Common asparagus
FAO -- NL
KS-TMN -- Asparagus, Grass, Sparagrass, Sparrow grass, Wild asparagus
Nagathein -- Asparagus
UHM -- NL
Picture
Leader from
http://plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/topics.cgi?earl=plant_profile.cgi&symbol=ASOF
Photos: left -- habit with flowers, right -- habit with fruits -- KS-TMN
Photo ฉJane Villa-Lobos. Courtesy of
Smithsonian Institution, Dept. of Systematic Biology, Botany.
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A perennial herb, rootstock stout, creeping, stems erect, terete, much branched. Leaves cauline, alternate, spinescent, bearing axillary cladophylls, in tufts of 2-6 the cladophylls acicular. Inflorescences in axillary cymes; bracts small, ovate, scarious. Flowers fragrant, ebracteolate, pedicellate, bisexual, actinomorphic, trimerous, hypogynous. Perianth synphyllous, petaloid, campanulate, 6-partite, 2-seriate of 3 segments each, imbricate in bud, white. Androecium polyandrous, stamens 6, as long as the perianth, 2-seriate, epiphyllous, attached to the bases of the perianth segments, the anthers dithecous, oblongoid, purplish, dorsifixed, introrse, dehiscence longitudinal. Pistil 1, ovary globose, 3-lobed, 3-carpelled, syncarpous, 3-loculed, the placentation axile, the ovules 6-8, biseriate in each locule, the style 1, th stigma 3-fid. Fruit a berry, globose, reddish; seeds 2-6, black, brittle, endosperm abundant. Flowering and fruiting periods: August - September -- KS-TMN
Grows in tropical deciduous forests and planted throughout Myanmar. -- KS-TMN
Cardiac inotropic; Perpetuate conception; Urinary tract infection; Lithiasis; Palpitation of heart; Arthritis; Gastro-intestinal disorder; Elephantiasis; Frequent bowel movement. Shoot -- Carminative. Root -- Gains weight -- KS-TMN
UKT: Family of Asparagus -- Asparagaceae or Liliaceae?
What is the family of Asparagus? While searching for data on A. officinalis, I came across NRCS (Natural Resources Conservation Service) of USDA (United States Dept. of Agri.) website which listed:
A. officinalis L. as: garden asparagus. Symbol: ASOF. Group: Monocot. Family: Liliaceae . Growth Habit: Forb/herb. Duration: Perennial. U.S. Nativity: Introduced.
Results of search for 'Asparagus' in the Checklist of Plants
of Myanmar, U.S. National Herbarium, 9 Aug 2006.
Asparagus acerosus Roxb. Habit: Shrub. Distribution: Bago, Magway,
Mandalay. Common Names: Shint-ma-tet, Tein-pan
Asparagus filicinus Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don. Habit: Herb. Distribution:
Chin, Kachin, Magway, Mandalay, Sagaing, Shan. Common Names: Ka-nyut
Asparagus lycopodineus (Baker) F. T. Wang & Ts. Tang. Habit: Herb.
Distribution: Reported from Myanmar. Common Names: Kanyut.
Asparagus officinalis L. Habit: Herb. Distribution:
Cultivated. Common Names: Common asparagus, Kannyut
Asparagus plumosus Baker. Habit: Herb. Distribution: Cultivated.
Common Names: Fern asparagus, Kanyut-gale
Asparagus racemosus Willd. Habit: Herb. Distribution: Cultivated.
Common Names: Climbing asparagus, Kanyut, Shin-matet
USDA-NRCS-data
"ASPAR", "Asparagus L.","asparagus","Liliaceae"
"ASAF", "Asparagus africanus Lam.","
African asparagus","Liliaceae"
"ASAS4","Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce","
African asparagus fern","Liliaceae"
"ASDE12","Asparagus densiflorus (Kunth)
Jessop","Sprenger's asparagus fern","Liliaceae"
"ASSP9","Asparagus sprengeri Regel",">>
Asparagus densiflorus","Liliaceae"
"ASOF", "Asparagus officinalis L.","
garden asparagus","Liliaceae"
"ASOFO2","Asparagus officinalis L. ssp. officinalis L.
[superfluous autonym]",">>Asparagus
officinalis","Liliaceae"
"ASSE12","Asparagus setaceus (Kunth)
Jessop","common asparagus fern","Liliaceae"
"ASPL5","Asparagus plumosus Baker",">>
Asparagus setaceus","Liliaceae"
Chklist
online listed for Myanmar -- Family: Liliaceae, only the following genera:
Cardiocrinum, Fritillaria, Lilium, Lloydia, Nomocharis
Entry format: Botanical name / Family / Ref. Burmese-Myanmar
transcripts ( Agri.Dept.2000 :
Chklist: LSR : FAO : KS-TMN:
Nagathein :
UHM :/ Myanmar-Script Spelling (
Official Myanmar Dictionaries : - TravPo-M-Dict - Myan-Engl-Dict - Myan-Ortho
/ Chklist data / Hindi /
Sanskrit / English common name used in Myanmar / Picture /
Plant identification characters / Distribution in Myanmar / Part
used and uses / Constituents /
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