Searsia incisa var. effusa open flowers

The small flowers of Searsia incisa var. effusa spread their five pointed petal lobes at an upwards angle around the cup of the corolla. The flowers are cream or yellow-green, hairy on the outer surfaces of their corollas, as well as on the five overlapping sepals.

Inside this cup there is either a style or stamens, the flowers being unisexual. There are five dark anthers present in the flowers in pictures, confirming that these flowers are and maybe the plant is male. Many Searsia species bear their male and female flowers on different plants, making them dioecious.

The pale red-brown fruits developing from female flowers are thinly fleshy and nearly spherical, borne in compact clusters. These fruits are densely covered in shaggy, pinkish brown or cream hairs, explaining the Afrikaans common name of baardbessie (beard berry). This common name is more strongly associated with the other variety, var. incisa.

The fruit sometimes dehisces when ripe, i.e. splitting open to free its seed in dispersal (Le Roux, et al, 2005; Coates Palgrave, 2002; Van Wyk and Van Wyk, 1997; iNaturalist).