Searsia populifolia
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| Family: | Anacardiaceae |
| Full name: | Searsia populifolia E.Mey. ex Sond. |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Suurtaaibos, Rosyntjieboom, Taaibos |
| English common name(s): | Poplar-leaved karee |
| Synonym(s): | Rhus populifolia E.Mey. ex Sond. Rhus steingroeveri Engl. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Branches smooth or thinly pubescent; leaves petiolate; leaflets on very short petiolules, triangular or rhombeo-sub-orbiculate, obtuse or acute, dentate, appressed, puberulous or glabrous above, whitish-tomentose beneath; panicles terminal, puberulous; drupe oblique, puberulous, tipped by the styles. A shrub, with the habit of the preceding, but differing by the leaves and fruits. Petiole about 6 lines long, scarcely canaliculate above. Leaflets 1,5 inch long, 1–1.25 inch wide, glabrous above, with yellowish, impressed nerves, on the lower surface with elevated nerves, the terminal larger, obtuse at base, or tapering into a petiole 2 lines long. Fructiferous panicles not longer than the leaves. Drupe wider than long (3 lines wide, 2 lines long.) (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Capensis) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
