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Searsia magalismontana (Sond.) Moffett

Species

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Characteristics

Branchlets, leaves, and panicles yellowish-tomentose; leaves petiolate; leaflets sessile, obovate-oblong or oblong, obtuse, mucronulate, wedge-shaped, reticulated and sub-glabrous above; panicles many-flowered, terminal, a little longer than the leaves. The whole plant is covered with a pale, golden down. Branches terete, striate branchlets angulate. Petiole 6-9 lines long, furrowed above. Leaflets with a prominent middle nerve on both sides; terminal inches long, 6-9 lines wide, the lateral ones smaller. Panicle compound; branches somewhat patent, the ultimate pedicels very short. Flowers imperfect in our specimens.
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Xerophytic shrub or dwarf shrub; branches dark grey, glabrous to puberulous, sometimes furfuraceous. Leaves: petiole margins slightly thickened, trifoliolate; leaflets sessile, coriaceous, grey to greyish green to yellowish, young growth gold-coloured or reddish pink above, grey below, glabrous to furfuraceous, narrowly linear to oblanceolate, margins entire, slightly thickened. Inflorescence axillary and terminal panicles, terminal exposed, lax, ± 70 mm long. Flowers: corolla lobes 2 mm long; calyx 1/2-3/4 length of corolla lobes. Fruit a drupe, oblate, ellipsoid, glabrous, shiny, light to dark brown.
A shrub.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
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Mature height (meter) 6.0
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

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It is a tropical plant.
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Usage

The fruit are eaten raw.
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Edible fruits
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Images

Searsia magalismontana unspecified picture
Searsia magalismontana unspecified picture

Distribution

Searsia magalismontana world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77088463-1
WFO ID wfo-0000510265
COL ID 4W74Q
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Synonyms

Searsia magalismontana Toxicodendron burkeanum Rhus magalismontana Rhus burkeana Rhus cinerea Rhus oblanceolata Rhus rhodesiensis Rhus coriacea Toxicodendron coriaceum

Lower taxons

Searsia magalismontana subsp. coddii Searsia magalismontana subsp. trifoliolata
WorldFloraDB 2024