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Pentzia incana was introduced in Arizona from southern Africa by the U.S. Soil Conservation Service. It is valued in its native region as a browse plant.
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Description
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Stem branches ascending, finely appressed-tomentulose. Leaves often fascicled; blades ± obovate to cuneate, 3–9 mm, 1(–2) times divided, ultimate lobes linear to narrowly spatulate, revolute, inconspicuously appressed-puberulent to tomentulose or glabrate, minutely gland-dotted. Peduncles slender, 2–3 cm, proximally bracteate, bracts remote, appressed, leaflike, distally usually ebracteate. Involucres 3–4 × 4–5 mm. Phyllaries: outer with relatively narrow scarious margins, inner with relatively broad, hyaline tips. Corollas ± goblet-shaped, 1.8–2+ mm. Cypselae gray-brown, 1.2–1.8 mm; pappi of 1–3, adaxial, ± truncate, erose to lacerate scales 0.6–1 mm.
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Synonym
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Chrysanthemum incanum Thunberg, Prodr. Pl. Cap., 161. 1800
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Derivation of specific name
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incana: hoary, white
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Pentzia incana (Thunb.) Kuntze Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=160910
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Description
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The following description is from Retief & Herman (1997).
Shrub, up to 60 cm, ± grey-pubescent. Leaves petiolate, 3-fid at apex or pinnatipartite; lobes linear. Phyllaries obtuse. Capitula terminal, solitary on long peduncles. Flowers yellow.
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Pentzia incana (Thunb.) Kuntze Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=160910
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Pentzia incana: Brief Summary
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The African sheepbush (Afrikaans: goeiekaroo, "good karoo", Pentzia incana) is a plant native to South Africa and Namibia. It ranges throughout the Succulent Karoo, Nama Karoo, renosterveld, and fynbos, and it is listed under the SANBI Red List as "safe" (LC).
The African sheepbush has been imported to Australia.
The grey, downy shrub grows to around 60 cm (24 in) in height, with fibrous stem branches that rise, bundled 3-9 mm leaves of egg or wedge shape split one or two ways, and yellow flowers resembling chamomile.
It is a reasonable grazing plant:
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