Searsia quartiniana (A.Rich.) A.J.Mill.

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/146223936/146223938

Conservation

LC - least concern

Anacardiaceae, Rosette Fernandes and A. Fernandes. Flora Zambesiaca 2:2. 1966

Morphology General Habit

Shrub or small tree up to 7 m. tall, with the old branches brownish, striate, lenticellate, pubescent or glabrous; branchlets cylindric, striate, ± densely and shortly whitish- or yellowish-patent-pilose.

Morphology Leaves Petiole

Petiole 0·8–2·5 cm. long, semicylindric, canaliculate above, ± densely pilose or tomentose.

Morphology Leaves Leaflets

Leaflets discolorous (dark green or olive-green and dull or shining above, yellowish-green to orange coloured below), lanceolate, oblong-elliptic to subrhombic or ovate, obtuse or acute at the apex, patent-hairy mainly on nerves and margin, covered with resin and in the juvenile state also with ± dense very small scales on the upper surface, sparse or absent in the adult leaves and with dense generally persistent scurf on the under surface; median leaflet 3–7(8·5) × 1–2·7(3·3) cm., cuneate at the base and often petiolulate, the petiolule up to 0·6 cm., the lateral ones 1·5–5·5 × 0·7–2·5 cm., sessile, sometimes asymmetric at the base; midrib raised on both sides, lateral nerves slender, not or slightly prominent above, moderately raised below, reticulation almost invisible.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences

Panicles up to 10 × 7 cm., with the axis and branches densely hispidulous and lepidote; pedicels c. 1 mm. long.

sex Male

Male flowers: calyx-segments c. 0·5 mm. long, shortly ovate, hispidulous on the back; petals yellowish-green, c. 1 mm. long, ovate.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers

Female flowers: ovary globose. Male flowers: calyx-segments c. 0·5 mm. long, shortly ovate, hispidulous on the back; petals yellowish-green, c. 1 mm. long, ovate.

sex Female

Female flowers: ovary globose.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Drupe reddish- or yellowish-brown, c. 3 mm. in diam., subglobose.

Anacardiaceae, J. O. Kokwaro (University of Nairobi). Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1986

Morphology General Habit

Shrub or small tree up to 7 m. high; old branches brownish, striate, lenticellate, pubescent or glabrous; branchlets cylindric, striate, rather densely and shortly whitish or yellowish spreading pilose.

Morphology Leaves

Petiole 0.5–2.5 cm. long, semicylindric, flattened or longitudinally grooved above, pilose to tomentose; median leaflet 2.5–6(–8.5) cm. long, 1–2.5(–3.3) cm. broad, cuneate at the base and often petiolulate, petiolule up to 0.5 cm. long; lateral leaflets 1.5–5.5 cm. long, 0.6–2.5 cm. broad, sessile, sometimes asymmetric at the base; all lanceolate, oblong-elliptic to subrhombic or ovate, obtuse or acute at the apex, spreading hairy especially on the nerves and margin, covered with resin and in the juvenile stage also with rather dense small scales on the upper surface, sparse or absent in the adult leaflets and with dense and persistent scurf on the under surface, discolorous; midrib raised on both surfaces; lateral nerves slender and moderately raised beneath; reticulation almost invisible.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences

Panicles 3–10 cm. long, the terminal one longer than the leaves, the axillary ones smaller, pyramidal; axis and branches densely hispidulous and lepidote; pedicels ± 1 mm. long.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx

Calyx-segments oblong-ovate, 0.5–0.7 mm. long, hispidulous outside.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla

Petals ovate or oblong-ovate, 0.8–1 mm. long, 0.5–0.7 mm. broad, yellowish green.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary

Ovary globose.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Drupes subglobose, 3–4 mm. in diameter, reddish- or yellowish-brown.

Figures

Fig. 5.

Habitat

Evergreen bushland, wooded grassland, riverine; 900–2600 m., rarely coastal (Zanzibar)

Distribution

K3 K4 K5 K6 K7 T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 T7 T8 Z