WorldFloraDB - Searsia rigida

Characteristics

Quite glabrous; branches sulcate; leaves petiolate; leaflets sessile, cuneate-lanceolate, or linear-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, stiff, entire, or with 1-2 short, acute teeth at the apex, coriaceous, uninerved, concoloured on both surfaces; racemes axillary or sub-terminal, simple or panicled, glabrous, twice or three times shorter than the leaves; drupe ovate, glabrous, beaked with the persistent styles. An erect, rigid shrub, branches grayish, branchlets purple, resinous. Leaflets somewhat glaucous, acute, mostly recurved, apiculate, 1.5-2 inches long, 3-4 lines wide, the lateral ones similar, but smaller. Petioles small-winged, 4-6 lines long. Racemes 6-8 lines long, few-flowered, rarely branched at base. Flowers minute. Drupe about 3 lines long. Panicles in var. B 1.5-2 inches long. Flowers as in var. a. Fruits are wanting.

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Tree or shrub, 0.2-2.0 m high; much branched, branches dull grey-brown to chestnut when young, glabrous, lateral branches spinous. Leaves: petioles dull yellow, trifoliolate; leaflets sessile, subcoriaceous, conduplicate, dark green to blue-green, lanceolate, narrowly elliptic to narrowly ovate, margins entire, whitish, slightly thickened. Inflorescence mostly axillary, but also terminal racemes and panicles, ± 60 mm long. Flowers: styles basally connate, persistent. Flowering time Nov.-Apr. Fruit a drupe, circular to oblate, obloid, glabrous, shiny, pale to dark brown.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	shrub
Growth support	free-standing
Foliage retention	deciduous
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It is a subtropical plant.

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Usage

The fruit are eaten raw.

Uses	medicinal
Edible	fruits
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