Searsia transvaalensis (Engl.) Moffett

Lax, many-stemmed shrub up to 2 m high, rarely small tree up to 4 m with pendulous pale branches. Bark smooth; young branches tomentose or glabrescent. Leaves trifoliolate, petiolate; petiole shallowly canaliculate above, pilose or glabrous, (5-)16(-37) mm long; leaflets subsessile, subcoriaceous, glabrous, dark green above, pale olive below, hypostomatous; lamina elliptic to narrowly elliptic, base cuneate to attenuate, apex acute, mucronulate; margin entire, weakly revolute; venation somewhat kladodromous; midrib yellow, prominent below, impressed above, other veins impressed above and below; terminal leaflets (12-)36(-60) x (3-)12(-19) mm, lateral leaflets (7-)23(-40) x (3-)9(-18) mm. Panicles numerous, relatively short (up to 50 mm long), mostly axillary, also terminal. Flowers normal. Drupe circular, globoid, glabrous, shiny, yellowish becoming light brown when mature 3.9 x 3.4-4.9 x 4.8 mm.

It is a subtropical plant.