Searsia dissecta (Thunb.) Moffett

Dwarf, branched, deciduous suffrutex or shrublet to 1.5 m high. Branches glabrous, reddish, divaricate to somewhat squarrose, often prominently lenticellate. Leaves trifoliolate, petiolate, often fasciculate; petiole slender, minutely canaliculate above (8-)15(-30) mm long; leaflets sessile, subcoriaceous, discolorous, dark green and glabrous above, canescent to white and tomentose below, hypostomatous; lamina obovate to obtrullate, base narrowly cuneate to attenuate, apex acute, mucronulate, rarely truncate; margin slightly thickened, often revolute, dentate, pinnatisect or parted in upper half, teeth acute, often sharply mucronate; venation simple craspedodromous, midrib prominent below, impressed above, secondaries slightly prominent, yellow, distinct above, slightly prominent, obscure below; terminal leaflets (8-)15(-30) x (3-)10(-17) mm, lateral leaflets (8-)12(-24) x (3-)6(-12) mm. Panicles glabrous, much reduced, few-flowered, terminal on short spurs, exposed. Flowers normal, corolla lobes distinctly veined. Drupe asymmetrically rhombic, ellipsoid, glabrous, pustulose to verrucose, slightly tricuspidate, yellow to dark red, 6.4 x 3.5-9.0 x 5.9 mm.

It is a subtropical plant. It grows on rocky slopes.