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Pentzia lanata Hutch.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Pentzia

Characteristics

Shrub, up to 1 m high; young branches densely white-hairy. Leaves alternate, sessile; blade pinnate, pinnatipartite or bipinnatipartite, longer than internodes, lobes linear, shortly pubescent. Heads discoid, solitary, terminal; peduncle up to 70 mm long. Involucral bracts 4-seriate, linear to narrowly ovate, margins broadly membranous, inner bracts conspicuously membranous. Receptacle epaleate. Flowers: disc florets only; corolla 5-lobed, yellow; Oct.-May. Fruit with cypsela oblong, 5-ribbed, glandular between ribs. Pappus an auriculately shaped scale.
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Much-branched shrub, up to 1 m high, young branches densely white-tomentose. Leaves alternate, sessile, pinnatipartite or bipinnatipartite, ultimate segments linear. Capitula discoid, solitary, terminal, pedunculate; involucral bracts in 4 rows, outer bracts linear to lanceolate, inner bracts oblanceolate-elliptic, conspicuously membranous. Florets yellow. Flowering time Jan.-Mar. Pappus an auriculately-shaped scale. Cypselae obliquely wedge-shaped.
Shrub, up to 0.6 m high. Leaves alternate, sessile, pinnate. Young branches densely albo-tomentose. Heads solitary, terminal, pedunculate. Involucral bracts linear to lanceolate. Flowers yellow; September, December to January and April to May.
Like P. peduncularis but leaves and peduncles glabrescent and glandular-papillate, and involucral bracts acute-acuminate.
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Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.0
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Soil humidity 1-3
Soil texture 7-8
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Pentzia lanata world distribution map, present in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:236840-1
WFO ID wfo-0000008372
COL ID 76PN4
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Synonyms

Pentzia lanata
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