Searsia tripartita(Ucria) Moffett

Tripartite Sumac

WFO wfo-0000510308 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Searsia tripartita, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. a Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-11 / obs. 173503003
Searsia tripartita, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. b Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66732043
Searsia tripartita, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. c Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66732422
Searsia tripartita, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. d Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178914820
Searsia tripartita, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. e Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178914694
Searsia tripartita, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. f Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173502861
Searsia tripartita, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. g Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108610034
Searsia tripartita, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. h Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108610061

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Searsia tripartita is native: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Sudan-South Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Sicilia AlgeriaEgyptLibyaMaliMauritaniaMoroccoNigerSudan-South SudanTunisiaWestern SaharaLebanon-SyriaPalestineSaudi ArabiaSinaiSicilia
Native distribution of Searsia tripartita, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Mali MLI
Mauritania MTN
Morocco MOR
Niger NGR
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tunisia TUN
Western Sahara WSA
Lebanon-Syria LBS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Palestine PAL
Saudi Arabia SAU
Sinai SIN
Sicilia SIC EUROPE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 13 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Rhamnus tripartita Ucria
  • Rhus albicans Willd.
  • Rhus crataegiformis Pers.
  • Rhus dioica Brouss. ex Willd.
  • Rhus oxyacantha Schousb. ex Cav.
  • Rhus oxyacantha var. ballii Maire
  • Rhus oxyacantha var. ziziphina (Tineo) Ball
  • Rhus oxyacanthoides Dum.Cours.
  • Rhus syriaca Boiss. & Balansa ex Boiss.
  • Rhus tripartita DC.
  • Rhus ziziphina Tineo
  • Toxicodendron oxyacanthum Kuntze
  • Ziziphus tripartita Roem. & Schult.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.