Rhus natalensis Bernh.

POWO follows these authorities in synonymising this name:

• Fischer, E., Rembold, K., Althof, A. & Obholzer, J. (2010). Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Kakamega forest, Western province, Kenya. Journal of East African Natural History 99: 129-226. [Cited as Searsia natalensis.]

This name was accepted following an alternative taxonomy by these authorities:

• Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria. [Cited as Rhus natalensis.]
• Timberlake, J.R., Bayliss, J., Alves, T., Francisco, J., Harris, T., Nangoma, D. & de Sousa, C. (2009). Biodiversity and Conservation of Mchese Mountain, Malawi. Report produced under the Darwin Initiative Award 15/036: 1-71. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Rhus natalensis.]

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• Aubrév. Fl. For. Soud.-Guin. 410.
• in Flora 27: 349 (1844)

Flora of Somalia

• Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• Cufod., Enumeratio Plantarum Aethiopiae Spermatophyta (Supplement in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux.) p. 473 (1958).
• Dale & Greenway, Kenya Trees and Shrubs p. 28 (1961).
• Engl. in A. & C. DC., Monogr. Phan. 4: 421 (1883)
• Engl. in A. Engler & O. Drude, Die Vegetation Der Erde, IX, Pflanzenwelt Afrikas 3(2): 206 (1921).
• Exell & Mendonça in Consp. Fl. Angol. 2: 100 (1954).
• F. White, Forest Flora of Northern Rhodesia p. 212 (1962).
• J.P.M. Brenan, Check-lists of the Forest Trees and Shrubs of the British Empire no. 5, part II, Tanganyika Territory p. 37 (1949).
• Krauss in Flora 27: 349 (1844).
• R. & A. Fernandes in Flora Zambesiaca 2: 597 (1966).
• Troupin, Fl. Pl. Lign. Rwanda: 103, fig. 31/3 (1982).
• W.J. Eggeling, Indigenous Trees of the Uganda Protectorate, ed. 2: 13 (1952).
• van der Veken in Flore du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi, 9: 40 (1960).