Oldwood

sericea: with silky appressed hairs, sericeous

Straggling shrub or small tree with greyish foliage. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate; leaflets obovate with coarsely toothed margins; lower surface grey-green, densely covered in silky hairs. Flowers in silky, dense terminal sprays, greenish. Fruit a cluster of small nuts enclosed in the persistent remnants of the calyx.

Locally common in parts of the E Highlands (mainly the Nyanga area - see note below)

As for the genus