Searsia harveyi (Moffett) Moffett

Species

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Characteristics

Virgate or branched suffrutex, up to 1 m high. Branches glabrous or villous/strigose, fulvous. Leaves trifoliolate, glabrous or hairy, petiolate; petiole semiterete, shallowly concave above (2-)24(-76) mm long; leaflets sessile, coriaceous, discolorous, dark green above, drying shiny brown, pale green below, glabrous or hairy, strigose above, strigose and villous below, hypostomatous; lamina widely oblanceolate to obovate, base cuneate, apex subacute to acuminate, mucronate; margin entire or ciliate, slightly revolute, slightly thickened, whitish; venation semi-craspedodromous to brochidodromous, midrib and secondaries prominent above and below, tertiaries and others prominently reticulate above; terminal leaflets (19-)55(-89) x (10-)27(-61) mm, lateral leaflets (11-)42(-74) x (5-)14(-25) mm. Panicles and flowers glabrous or hairy, otherwise together with drupes, as for R. discolor. Drupes ±5-6 mm diameter.
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Dwarf shrub, 0.2-1.0 m high; virgate or branched suffrutex, branches glabrous or villous, fulvous. Leaves petiolate, trifoliolate, glabrous or hairy; leaflets sessile, coriaceous; dark green above, drying shiny brown, glabrous or hairy above, paler green, strigose and villous below, widely lanceolate to obovate, margins entire or ciliate, slightly revolute and thickened, whitish. Inflorescence much-branched panicles, pubescent or glabrous, axillary and terminal. Flowers: pedicle and calyx pubescent; styles persistent. Fruit a drupe, circular to oblate, glabrous, shiny, dull yellowish brown.
A shrub. It grows 2 m tall. The leaves are velvety underneath. The leaves are sword shaped and 14 cm long by 4 cm wide. They have a sharp point. The flowers are in groups near the ends of branches.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
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Mature height (meter) 1.0
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It is a subtropical plant.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

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Edible fruits
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Distribution

Searsia harveyi world distribution map, present in eSwatini and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77088438-1
WFO ID wfo-0000510252
COL ID 4W746
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Synonyms

Rhus harveyi Searsia harveyi