Searsia lancea
| Family: | Anacardiaceae |
| Full name: | Searsia lancea L.f. |
| Location: | Naukluft (2416AC) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Karee, Kareeboom, Soetkaree, Jakkalsbos |
| English common name(s): | Willow rhus, Karee, Baster willow |
| Synonym(s): | Rhus lancea L.f. Rhus viminalis Aiton |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Shrub or small tree. Leaflets lanceolate, dark green above and yellowish-green beneath; margin entire. (from Flora of Zimbabwe website) Large semi-evergreen shrub or spreading tree, usually 6-8 m high, rarely up to 12 m. Bark rough, irregularly fissured, dark brown to blackish; branches and branchlets reddish, pendulous. Leaves trifoliolate, petiolate; petiole semiterete, slightly canaliculate above, (9-)20 (-31) mm long; leaflets sessile, subcoriaceous, glabrous, somewhat glutinous, discolorous, dark olive-green above, pale yellowish green below, hypostomatous; lamina linear to lanceolate, base narrowly cuneate, apex subacute, mucronulate; margin entire, slightly thickened, venation semi-craspedodromous, midrib and other veins prominent above, midrib only prominent below; terminal leaflets (24-)70(-120) x (4-)8(-12) mm, lateral leaflets (14-)55(-100) x (3-)7(-ll) mm. Panicles lax, much branched, flowers crowded, axillary and terminal, latter up to 90 mm long, mostly within foliage. Flowers with corolla lobes narrower than usual, oblong, 1.5 mm x 0.5 mm, styles widely separate, recurved, persistent. Drupe oblate, ellipsoid, glabrous, shiny, dull yellow to brown, 5.5 x 4.0 to 6.5 x 4.3 mm. (from JSTOR Global Plants website) An evergreen, untidy shrub or single-stemmed tree with spreading crown and drooping branches. BARK grey to blackish, rough; irregularly fissured to form fragments that flake off, exposing a pale brown to reddish underbark; young branchlets slightly reddish. LEAVES trifoliolate; leaflets sessile, linear-lanceolate, straight or slightly sickle-shaped; shiny, dark green above, often sticky-looking; dull olive-green below. FLOWERS tiny, star-like; greenish to green-yellow. FRUIT almost round, slightly flattened. (from Tree Atlas of Namibia) |
| 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 |
| Photographer: | AA Dreyer |
| Date of photograph: | 02 Apr 2015 |
| Camera make: | PENTAX |
| Camera model: | PENTAX K-x |
| Lens aperture: | f/5.6 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/80 s |
| ISO speed: | 200 |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
