Searsia carnosula (Schönland) Moffett

100 mm wide with prostrate or erect branches, to small shrub up to 1.5 m high. Branches glabrous, often brownish when young. Leaves trifoliolate, petiolate; petiole rigid, semi-terete, canaliculate above, (10-)20(-31) mm long; leaflets sessile, coriaceous, slightly fleshy, concolorous, glaucous, hypostomatous; lamina elliptic to obovate, base cuneate, apex acute, mucronate; margin slightly thickened, often white, paucidentate in upper half with (1-)3(-7) prominent mucronate teeth; venation craspedodromous to kladodromous, midrib and other veins impressed above, prominent below; terminal leaflets (27-)39(-63) x (11-)19 (-31) mm, lateral leaflets (9-)27(-48) x (8-)14 (-23) mm. Panicles up to 90 mm long, exserted from the foliage when terminal, within when axillary. Flowers similar to but slightly larger than those of R. dentata. Drupe also slightly larger than the previous species, circular, globoid, glabrous, shiny dark brown, 4.9 x 4.4-6.1 x 5.7 mm. Flowering recorded from December to January and in April.