I. Friis & K. Vollesen (1999) Anacardiaceae 2: 254-267
Plants shrubs or small trees; branchlets pale brown, becoming greyish or whitish, glabrous to densely hairy. Leaflets often obscurely crenulate in distal portion, glabrous or almost so; midribs and lateral veins more or less promient, tertiary veins obscure; petioles 1-3.5(-4 cm long; middle leaflets 2-9 cm long, 1-3.5 cm wide, up to 3.5 times longer than wide,oblanceolate to obovate or elliptic, bases cuneate, tips usually rounded to retuse, rarely acute; lateral leaflets shorter. Panicles usually shorter than the leaves. Drupes more or less kdney-shaped,red, longest dimension 5-7 mm long.
Searsia natalensis grows in deciduous or evergreen bushland at 100-1650 m in regions N1-N3 of the Flora of Somalia and from Djibouti, Eritrea, and Ethiopia west to Guinea, south to Natal and the eastern Cape, and east to tropical Arabia.