Searsia dissecta

Searsia dissecta, in Afrikaans commonly the langsteelkorentebos (long stem currant bush), is a straggling shrub, usually low-growing but sometimes reaching heights to 1,8 m.

The small, bisexual flowers are greenish, growing in small clusters. Flowering happens from late autumn to about the first half of winter.

The species distribution is in the Western Cape and maybe slightly into the Northern Cape, known on the Gifberg and Vanrhynsdorp to the Cape Peninsula and eastwards to Worcester and McGregor. The photo was taken in the Biedouw Valley.

The habitat is rocky slopes and coastal flats. The species is not considered to be threatened in its habitat early in the twenty first century (Manning and Goldblatt, 1997; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist; http://redlist.sanbi.org).