Searsia rimosa (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Moffett

Erect, rigid shrub up to 3 m high. Bark grey-brown, granular; branches relatively straight, branchlets ascending, reddish brown, shallowly ribbed. Leaves trifoliolate, petiolate; petiole semiterete, often margined, canaliculate, (6-)10(-13) mm long; leaflets sessile, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous, often glutinous when young, concolorous, olive-green, amphistomatous; lamina oblanceolate, occasionally almost linear, apex subacute to acute, mucronulate, sometimes grossly dentate; margin entire, slightly thickened, slightly revolute, whitish; venation hyphodro-mous, midrib prominent below, slightly prominent above; terminal leaflets (21-)38(-62) x (4-)7(-12) mm, lateral leaflets (21-)29(-44) x (3-)6(-12) mm. Panicles glabrous, up to 60 mm long, mostly axillary within foliage, rarely terminal, exposed. Flowers normal, calyx lobes deeply segmented, corolla lobes oblong. Drupe elliptic, ellipsoid, glabrous, shiny, dull yellowish light brown, tricuspidate, 4.4 mm high x 3.5 mm thick to 4.5 x 4.0 mm.