Searsia pyroides var. gracilis (Engl.) Moffett

Shrub or small tree up to 7 m tall, often thorny, with the young branches brownish and patent-hairy, the oldest ones greyish. Petiole c. half as long as the median leaflet or shorter, slender, terete, pubescent, slightly furrowed above. Leaflets glaucous (when dried pale greenish, slightly darker above), submembranous, entire or with some teeth, appressed-pilose or sometimes densely sericeous, at times nearly glabrous; median leaflet 3-8 x 1-2.3 cm, oblanceolate to elliptic, narrowing at both ends, acute at the apex, cuneate at the base, the lateral ones elliptic, narrower and shorter than the median or ± equal to it; midrib and lateral nerves slender, raised on both surfaces, more so below, reticulation very close, visible on both surfaces. Panicles terminal and axillary, large, pubescent; flowers glomerulate. Calyx-segments 0.5-0.75 mm long. Petals oblong, 1.25-1.5 mm long. Drupe c. 3 mm in diam., subglobose, slightly compressed.