Searsia tumulicola (S.Moore) Moffett

Tree or shrub, 0.3-2.5 m high; spreading habit; bark rough, somewhat fissured, older branches gnarled, younger branches sometimes striate, glabrous to densely puberulous. Leaves petiolate, trifoliolate; leaflets sessile to petiolulate, membranous to coriaceous, dark olive-green, densely tomentose to villous below, pubescent above, elliptic to obovate, margins entire, often irregularly serrate towards apex. Inflorescence pyramidal, much-branched panicles; branches pubescent; males terminal and exserted beyond foliage; females shorter and axillary. Flowers with styles sometimes partially fused. Fruit a drupe, obloid, glabrous, shiny, brown.

It is a tropical and subtropical plant. It grows between 900-2,100 m above sea level.