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|accepted_name=Pentzia
|accepted_authority=Thunberg
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Prodr. Pl. Cap.,
|place=145. 1800
|year=1800
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Anthemideae;Pentzia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Anthemideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Pentzia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Hendrik Christian Pentz, 1738–1803, Swedish plant collector
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 53, 68, 487
|treatment_page=page 543
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>[subshrubs], [5–]15–35[–50] cm (usually aromatic). <b>Stems</b> 1–10+, usually much branched, ± tomentose (hairs medifixed) [glabrate or glabrous]. <b>Leaves</b> cauline (often fascicled, ± ericoid); alternate [opposite]; petiolate or sessile; blades linear to obovate or cuneate, often 1[–2]-pinnately lobed, ultimate margins entire or toothed, faces ± tomentose [glabrate or glabrous]. <b>Heads</b> discoid, borne singly or in loose, corymbiform arrays (pedunculate). <b>Involucres</b> spheric to hemispheric or broader, 3–6[–12+] mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent or tardily falling, 22–40[–60+] in 3–4+ series, distinct, deltate-ovate to elliptic or obovate (sometimes each with central resin canal and/or keel), unequal, margins and apices (often hyaline, sometimes brownish) ± scarious (tips of inner ± dilated). <b>Receptacles</b> conic [convex to hemispheric], epaleate. <b>Ray</b> florets 0. <b>Disc</b> florets 40–100[–200+], bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow, tubes ± cylindric (usually dilated, with relatively thick vascular strands), throats abruptly dilated, lobes 5, triangular. <b>Cypselae</b> narrowly obovoid to oblong or elliptic, ± terete or flattened, ribs 5, faces gland-dotted between ribs (pericarps with myxogenic cells abaxially and along ribs); pappi of 1 (often cupped or earlike) or 3–5 (erose to lacerate) scales (usually more developed adaxially) [asymmetrically coroniform or 0]. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=Africa (mostly South Africa;also Namibia and Mediterranean Africa and adjacent areas).
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species ± 23 (1 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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name=Pentzia
|author=David J. Keil
|authority=Thunberg
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=John Myers
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=Africa (mostly South Africa;also Namibia and Mediterranean Africa and adjacent areas).
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Prodr. Pl. Cap.,
|publication year=1800
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Anthemideae
|genus=Pentzia
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