Searsia dracomontana (Moffett) Moffett

Deciduous, virgate suffrutex to 0.8 m high, occasionally forming dense shrubs 1.25 m high and 1.5 m wide. Branches rough, prominently lenticellate, darkly farinose. Leaves trifoliolate, petiolate, darkly farinose; petiole semiterete, canaliculate above, (7-)28(-48) mm long; leaflets sessile, thin, membranous, glutinose, concolorous, dark green above, slightly paler below, hypostomatous; lamina obovate, rarely elliptic, base cuneate, apex rounded to acute, mucronulate; margin entire; venation semicraspedodromous, translucent, midrib slightly prominent above, prominent below, secondary and tertiary veins impressed above and below; terminal leaflets (19-)46(-75) x (9-)21(-34) mm, lateral leaflets (12-)21(-50) x (6-)15(-23) mm. Panicles axillary and terminal, males up to 100 mm long, females up to 60 mm long. Flowers normal. Drupe circular to oblate, globoid, glabrous, shiny, drying brown, ±4.2 x 3.5 mm.