Searsia pentaphylla, the tazat tree in local Amazigh language, is a sumac shrub or small tree species in the genus Searsia found in North Africa, especially in Morocco and Algeria, the Levant, and Sicily.

Searsia pentaphylla is typically a thorny shrub or small tree.

[1] Searsia pentaphylla is native to northwestern Africa, including Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, and Western Sahara, and to Sicily, Israel, and Palestine.

[1] The shrub is locally abundant in northwestern Africa, and its subpopulations there are considered stable.

It had been found in Palermo, Sciacca, Linosa, San Vito Lo Capo, but may no longer be present there.