Searsia incisa (L.F.) F.A.Barkley

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Anacardiaceae > Searsia

Characteristics

Branches puberulous; leaves petio-late; leaflets sessile, obovate, wedge-shaped, obtuse, incised pinnatifid,lobes obtuse, pubescent above, whitish tomentose beneath; panicles terminal, tomentose, pendulous, as long as t/ie leaves; flowers sub-sessile;drupe pubescent. Shrub, 1-2 feet high, with rigid branches and horizontal, very short branchlets.Petioles puberulous, somewhat flat above, 4-6 lines long. Leaflets obtuse, mucro-nulate or emarginate, with impressed nerves above, ribbed below, the terminal onevery cuneate, 6-10 lines long, 4-6 lines wide. Panicle inche, the upper flowers spicate. Ripe fruit unknown.
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Tree or shrub, 0.5-5.0 m high; multi-stemmed, deciduous, branches divaricate, greyish brown, glabrous, lenticels brown; branchlets squarrose, often reddish, spur-like. Leaves petiolate, trifoliolate; leaflets sessile, coriaceous, dark green and minutely hairy above, canescent to white below, ovate to obovate, dissection varies, from deeply dissected to less deeply dissected. Inflorescence a panicle, pubescent, terminal on short spurs, exposed. Flowers small, sessile, greenish yellow; calyx and corolla tomentose. Flowering time all year. Fruit a drupe, cream-coloured to pinkish brown, villous.
Dioecious, deciduous shrub, up to 3 m tall. Leaves trifoliolate, leaflets sessile, ovate, dark green above, with whitish-grey matted hairs below, margins deeply lobed or shallowly dentate. Flowers greenish yellow. Drupe ellipsoid, hairy and cream-coloured.
A shrub. It loses its leaves during the year. It grows 3 m tall. The leaves have 3 leaflets. These are oval and has deep lobes or teeth. The flowers are greenish yellow. The fruit are oval and hairy.
Dioecious, deciduous shrub to 3 m. Leaves trifoliolate, leaflets sessile, ovate, discolorous, margins deeply lobed or shallowly dentate. Flowers greenish yellow. Drupes ellipsoid, hairy.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality dioecy
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Mature height (meter) 3.0
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Environment

It is a subtropical plant.
Light -
Soil humidity 1-3
Soil texture 3-5
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

Uses -
Edible fruits
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Cultivation

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Distribution

Searsia incisa world distribution map, present in South Africa

Conservation status

Searsia incisa threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:71175-1
WFO ID wfo-0000434902
COL ID 4W749
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Rhus incisa Toxicodendron incisum Toxicodendron obovatum Rhus obovata Searsia incisa

Lower taxons

Searsia incisa var. incisa