Pentzia incana Kuntze

Compact, rounded or spreading, sparsely leafy, aromatic shrublet, 0.15-0.6 m tall; stems erect to spreading, well-branched, branches divaricate or rarely somewhat fastigiate, younger branches white-or grey-felted; cortex rough. Leaves alternate, regularly arranged along upper parts of branches, suberect to spreading, 2.0-15.0 x ±1.5-7.0 mm, pinnately 3-to 7(9)-lobed, lower half to one-third usually narrowed into petiole-like base up to 7 mm long; densely white-or grey-felted on both surfaces when young, sometimes becoming sparsely felted when mature, often canescent; lobes ovate to narrowly oblong, 0.5-5.0 x ±0.5-1.0 mm, lateral lobes spreading semi-obliquely to often horizontally; sheath not differentiated from the lamina, only uppermost leaves with 1 to 3 pairs of secondary basal lobes, remnants of leaf somewhat persistent. Capitula discoid, homogamous, solitary or usually with 1 to 3 additional capitula from leaf axils below; peduncle 0.5-110 mm long, sparsely to densely felted, greenish to light brown. Involucre hemispherical to broadly or sometimes narrowly campanulate, 2.0-4.0 x 3.0-7.0 mm, erect to spreading at rim; involucre bracts 4-or 5-seriate, median resin canal absent, margins and apices scarious, membraneous apices of inner and innermost bracts 0.6-1.5 mm long; outer bracts lanceolate to ovate, 1.5-3.0 mm long; middle bracts ovate to broadly ovate, 2.0-3.5 mm long; inner bracts ovate to broadly elliptic, 2.5-3.5 mm long, very slightly incurved; innermost bracts oblanceolate to obovate, 2.5-4.0 mm long. Receptacle convex, epaleate, alveolate. Florets bisexual, numerous. Corolla ±2.0-2.5 mm long, yellow, with glandular trichomes; tube ±1.0 mm long; limb cupuliform to campanulate, ±0.5 mm long (excluding lobes), 5-lobed; lobes triangular, spreading, 0.4 mm long. Anthers ±1.0 mm long including apical appendages, slightly sagittate at base; apical appendages ovate to broadly ovate, obtuse. Style terete with thickened base; branches ±0.5 mm long, truncate, papillate apically-dorsally. Pappus present, auriculate or obliquely cup-shaped, adaxially longer, membranous, white, irregularly lobed. Cypselas oblong, ±1.5 x 0.5 mm, 5-ribbed, glandular trichomes between ribs, mucilaginous when soaked.

Grows in arid saltbush shrublands.