Searsia divaricata (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Moffett

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Anacardiaceae > Searsia

Characteristics

Branches spreading, terete, smooth, branchlets and petioles minutely-pubescent; leaves on longish petioles; leaflets sessile, ovate, obtuse or emarginate, mucronulate, the terminal narrowed at base, the laterals smaller, sub-oblique, puberulous above, albo-or reddish-tomentose beneath, quite entire, with the margin slightly recurved or paucidentate; panicles axillary, small, sparsi-flowered, pubescent, shorter than the leaves or sub-equal; drupe globose, smooth. A shrub, seemingly small, much branched, ultimate branchlets short. Petioles 6-10 lines long, furrowed. Terminal leaflets f-i inch long, 5-6 lines wide; the lateral ones about half as long, regularly penninerved, puberulous, at last glabrous above. Panicle about an inch long, snorter or longer, the rhachis flexuose, lateral branches sometimes few, 3-5 flowered, pedicels 1 line long. Flowers about 3/4 lines long. Petals twice as long as the ovate, acute calyx. Drupe tipped with the three styles. Known from the very similar It. refracta, by the tomentose, not villous or glabrous leaves.
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Multistemmed, stoloniferous, deciduous shrub up to 3 m high; branchlets grey to chestnut brown, glabrous to puberulous. Leaves trifoliolate, petiolate; petiole semiterete, canaliculate above, (8-)18(-51) mm long; leaflets sessile, subcoriaceous, discolorous, dark olive-green above, greyish green to rufescent below, glabrous to puberulent above, glandular below, hypostomatous; lamina obovate to obtrullate, base cuneate, apex acute to obtuse, mucronulate-plicate; margin entire, occasionally paucidentate towards apex, slightly revolute; venation semicraspedodromous, all veins prominent above, tertiaries reticulate, only midrib and secondaries prominent below; terminal leaflets (10-)28(-51) x (5-)13(-26) mm, lateral leaflets (7-)20(-38) x (3-)10(-20) mm. Panicles up to 30 mm long, sparsely flowered, axillary and terminal, latter slightly exposed. Flowers normal, calyx lobes pubescent. Drupe circular, globoid, glabrous, shiny, red, drying dark brown, 4.3 x 4.0-5.5 x 5.0 mm.
Tree or shrub, 1-3 m high; multi-stemmed, stoloniferous, deciduous; branchlets grey to chestnut-brown, glabrous to puberulous. Leaves petiolate, trifoliolate; leaflets sessile, subcoriaceous, dark olive-green above, greyish green to rufescent below, glabrous to puberulent above, glandular below, obovate to obtrullate, margins entire, occasionally paucidentate towards apex, slightly revolute. Inflorescence axillary or terminal panicles, terminal slightly exposed, sparsely flowered. Flowers: calyx lobes pubescent. Flowering time Oct.-Mar. Fruit a drupe, globoid, glabrous, shiny, red, drying dark brown.
Erect, multistemmed to open-branched shrub, up to 3 m high, often forming colonies. Leaflets sessile; blade with shape variable from ovate to narrowly obovate, margins entire, rufescent below; terminal leaflets (10-)28(-51) x (5-)13(-26) mm. Flowers: corolla dull yellow; Oct., Nov. Fruit a globose, glabrous drupe.
Shrub, up to 3 m high, erect, multistemmed to open-branched, often forming colonies. Leaflets rufescent below, entire, shape variable from ovate to narrowly obovate. Drupes circular, globoid. Flowers dull yellow.
A shrub. The branches are spreading and with small hairs. The leaves have long stalks and the leaflets do not have stalks.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
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Mature height (meter) 3.0
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Environment

It is a subtropical plant.
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Soil humidity 1-5
Soil texture 5-8
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible fruits
Therapeutic use Cold (unspecified), Cough (unspecified), Rain-Making (unspecified), Fumitory (unspecified)
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Distribution

Searsia divaricata world distribution map, present in Lesotho and South Africa

Conservation status

Searsia divaricata threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77088413-1
WFO ID wfo-0000510229
COL ID 4W73J
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Synonyms

Rhus subferruginata Rhus fulvescens Searsia divaricata Rhus divaricata Rhus dentata var. fulvescens