Searsia burchellii
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Leaves
30 Sep 2006
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30 Sep 2006
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30 Sep 2006
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Old leaves - note shiny
appearance
30 Sep 2006
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Old leaves - note shiny
appearance
01 May 2011
| Family: | Anacardiaceae |
| Full name: | Searsia burchellii Sond. ex Engl. |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Karoo-koeniebos, Taaibos, Blinkblaar taaibos, Kunibos, Kuniebos |
| English common name(s): | Karoo kuni-bush |
| Synonym(s): | Rhus burchellii Sond. ex Engl. Rhus burchellii Sond. ex Engl. var. tricrenata Engl. fide Fl. S. Africa 19 (3:1): 82 Rhus rangeana Engl. fide Fl. S. Africa 19 (3:1): 83 Rhus undulata Jacq. var. burchellii (Sond. ex Engl.) Schönland Rhus undulata Jacq. var. tricrenata (Engl.) R.Fern. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Much-branched, evergreen, sometimes thorny, divaricate shrub up to 5 m high. Bark granular, grey-brown; branches and branchlets squarrose, prominently lenticellate. Leaves trifoliolate, petio-late, crowded on spurs; petiole semiterete, canaliculate above, (4-)8(-11) mm long; leaflets sessile, subcoriaceous, concolorous, olive-green, laccate, glabrous, hypostomatous; lamina cuneate, obtriangular to obcordate, base cuneate to attenuate, apex emarginate, mucronulate, rarely paucicrenulate; margin entire; venation klado-dromous, midrib slightly prominent above and below, other veins impressed, usually obscure; terminal leaflets (7-)13(-23) x (3-)7(-13) mm, lateral leaflets (5-)10(-16) x (3-)5(-10) mm. Panicles and flowers are similar to that of the previous species, R. longispina. Drupes also similar but slightly more compressed, 3.7 x 2.2 to 6.3 x 3.7 mm, width/thickness ratio ±1.7 compared to ±1.5 in R. longispina. (from JSTOR website / Flora of Southern Africa) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie |
| Content last updated: | 22 Nov 2011 |
