Searsia pallens (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Moffett

Much-branched, multistemmed, unarmed, evergreen shrub up to 3 m high. Bark grey-brown, granular to slightly striate; branches ascending, branchlets dark brown, ribbed. Leaves trifoliolate, petiolate; petiole semiterete, shallowly canaliculate above, often semi-alate, (5-)11(-21) mm long; leaflets sessile, submembranous, con-colorous, olive-green, glabrous, hypostomatous; lamina oblanceolate or spatulate to narrowly obovate, base narrowly cuneate to attenuate, apex retuse to subacute, mucronulate; margin entire, revolute, occasionally undulate towards apex; venation kladodromous to semicraspedodromous, midrib prominent above and below, secondaries at 45°, 4-6 per cm, slightly prominent above, impressed below; terminal leaflets (16-)40(-68) x (3-)8(-18) mm, lateral leaflets (6-)29(-38) x (3-)8(-16) mm. Panicles up to 80 mm long, much-branched, axillary within foliage, terminal exposed. Flowers normal, corolla lobes widely ovate. Drupe oblate, ellipsoid, glabrous, shiny, light to chestnut-brown, 3.6 x 1.9-4.4 x 2.7 mm. Flowering recorded in January, March to July and September.