Searsia

Accepted species 110 Documented here 57 Family Anacardiaceae

Accepted species 110 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Searsia tomentosa (L.) F.A.Barkley 945 documented
Searsia lucida (L.) F.A.Barkley 815 documented
Searsia angustifolia (L.) F.A.Barkley 809 documented
Searsia glauca (Thunb.) Moffett 613 documented
Searsia rosmarinifolia (Vakl) F.A.Barkley 494 documented
Searsia lancea (L.f.) F.A.Barkley 407 documented
Searsia undulata (Jacq.) T.S.Yi, A.J.Mill. & J.Wen 401 documented
Searsia pallens (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Moffett 317 documented
Searsia crenata (Thunb.) Moffett 286 documented
Searsia laevigata (L.) F.A.Barkley 268 documented
Searsia burchellii (Sond. ex Engl.) Moffett 199 documented
Searsia discolor (E.Mey. ex Sond.) Moffett 195 documented
Searsia chirindensis (Baker f.) Moffett 182 documented
Searsia pyroides (Burch.) Moffett 166 documented
Searsia pendulina (Jacq.) Moffett 154 documented
Searsia dentata (Thunb.) F.A.Barkley 142 documented
Searsia pterota (C.Presl) Moffett 131 documented
Searsia dissecta (Thunb.) Moffett 124 documented
Searsia divaricata (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Moffett 107 documented
Searsia erosa (Thunb.) Moffett 93 documented
Searsia rehmanniana (Engl.) Moffett 90 documented
Searsia longispina (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Moffett 85 documented
Searsia incisa (L.f.) F.A.Barkley 82 documented
Searsia leptodictya (Diels) T.S.Yi, A.J.Mill. & J.Wen 81 documented
Searsia refracta (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Moffett 79 documented
Searsia scytophylla (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Moffett 66 documented
Searsia zeyheri (Sond.) Moffett 64 documented
Searsia cuneifolia (L.f.) F.A.Barkley 57 documented
Searsia pentheri (Zahlbr.) Moffett 54 documented
Searsia populifolia (Sond.) Moffett 40 documented
Searsia nebulosa (Schönland) Moffett 38 documented
Searsia rimosa (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Moffett 37 documented
Searsia gueinzii (Sond.) F.A.Barkley 35 documented
Searsia rigida (Mill.) F.A.Barkley 34 documented
Searsia tumulicola (S.Moore) Moffett 34 documented
Searsia horrida (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Moffett 27 documented
Searsia tripartita (Ucria) Moffett 26 documented
Searsia carnosula (Schönland) Moffett 24 documented
Searsia ciliata (Licht. ex Schult.) A.J.Mill. 24 documented
Searsia montana (Diels) Moffett 24 documented
Searsia dregeana (Sond.) Moffett 23 documented
Searsia pondoensis (Schönland) Moffett 22 documented
Searsia natalensis (Bernh. ex Krauss) F.A.Barkley 21 documented
Searsia mysorensis (G.Don) Moffett 20 documented
Searsia magalismontana (Sond.) Moffett 18 documented
Searsia rogersii (Schönland) Moffett 16 documented
Searsia keetii (Schönland) Moffett 13 documented
Searsia transvaalensis (Engl.) Moffett 10 documented
Searsia acocksii (Moffett) Moffett 9 documented
Searsia longipes (Engl.) Moffett 8 documented
Searsia harveyi (Moffett) Moffett 7 documented
Searsia parviflora (Roxb.) F.A.Barkley 6 documented
Searsia tenuinervis (Engl.) Moffett 5 documented
Searsia thyrsiflora (Balf.f.) Moffett 5 documented
Searsia marlothii (Engl.) Moffett 4 documented
Searsia gerrardii (Engl.) Moffett 3 documented
Searsia krebsiana (C.Presl ex Engl.) Moffett 3 documented
Searsia engleri (Britten) Moffett 2 below the evidence gate
Searsia pygmaea (Moffett) Moffett 2 below the evidence gate
Searsia stenophylla (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Moffett 2 below the evidence gate
Searsia pentaphylla (Jacq.) F.A.Barkley ex Moffett 1 below the evidence gate
Searsia acuminatissima (R.Fern. & A.Fern.) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia albida (Schousb.) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia albomarginata (Sond.) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia anchietae (Ficalho & Hiern) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia angolensis (Engl.) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia arenaria (Engl.) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia aucheri (Boiss.) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia batophylla (Codd) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia blanda (Meikle) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia bolusii (Sond. ex Engl.) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia brenanii (Kokwaro) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia crenulata (A.Rich.) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia dracomontana (Moffett) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia dumetorum (Exell) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia fanshawei (R.Fern. & A.Fern.) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia fastigata (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia flexicaulis (Baker) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia gallagheri (Ghaz.) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia glutinosa (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia gracilipes (Exell) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia gracillima (Engl.) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia grandidens (Harv. ex Engl.) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia grossireticulata (Van der Veken) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia humpatensis (Meikle) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia kirkii (Oliv.) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia kwangoensis (Van der Veken) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia kwazuluana (Moffett) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia lucens (Hutch.) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia maricoana (Moffett) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia monticola (Meikle) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia nitida (Engl.) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia obtusata (Engl.) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia ochracea (Meikle) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia paniculata (Wall. ex G.Don) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia problematodes (Merxm. & Roessler) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia puccionii (Chiov.) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia quartiniana (A.Rich.) A.J.Mill. 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia retinorrhoea (Steud. ex Oliv.) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia rudatisii (Engl.) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia ruspolii (Engl.) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia sekhukhuniensis (Moffett) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia somalensis (Engl.) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia squalida (Meikle) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia tenuipes (R.Fern. & A.Fern.) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia tridactyla (Burch.) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia volkii (Suess.) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia wellmanii (Engl.) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia wildii (R.Fern. & A.Fern.) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Searsia wilmsii (Diels) Moffett 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.