Searsia rehmanniana var. glabrata (Sond.) Moffett

Shrub or small tree up to 9 m tall. Branches cylindric, fulvous-ochraceous, densely villous. Leaves 3-foliolate (occasionally 4-or 5-foliolate); petiole 1-1.5 cm long, subterete; leaflets somewhat discolorous (when dried dull-brown on the upper surface, reddish-brown or yellowish-brown below), subcoriaceous, villous with ± patent hairs, entire or sometimes crenate or dentate in the upper part; median leaflet 2.5-4.5 x 1.4-2.2 cm, ovate or obovate-cuneate, rounded, obtuse or subacute at the apex; lateral leaflets c. 2/3 as long as the median one, symmetric or slightly asymmetric at the base; midrib and the arcuate lateral nerves visible, but slightly or not at all raised on the upper surface, rather prominent on the lower; tertiary nerves and reticulation distinct. Panicles many-branched and multiflorous, pubescent, the axillary ones as long as the leaves or longer, the terminal ones much longer; pedicels 0.5-0.75 mm long. Calyx-segments c. 0.5 mm long, ovate, obtuse, hairy. Petals 1-1.25 mm long, oblong. Drupe cream-coloured or reddish, c. 3 mm in diam, subglobose.