Citation: Thunb. Prod. Pl. Cap. 2:145 (1800).

Derivation: After C. J. Pentz, Swedish botanist and colleague of C. P. Thunberg.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Perennial herbs and undershrubs, aromatic, glandular, with greyish indumentum; leaves cauline, alternate, numerous, dissected.

Capitula terminal, pedunculate, solitary or in corymbs, small, discoid, homogamous; involucres ovoid to hemispherical; bracts herbaceous to scarious, imbricate in 2 or 3 series; receptacle conical, naked, pitted; florets bisexual, fertile, tubular, 4- or 5-merous, numerous; corollas narrow below, campanulate above; anthers obtuse at the base with ovate apical appendages; style branches broadly linear, truncate with papillose apices.

Achenes compressed, asymmetrical, angular, ribbed; pappus of scales fused into a crown.

Distribution:  About 30 species in southern Africa.

Biology: No text

Key to Species:

1. Capitula solitary or 2 to 3 in a loose corymb	P. incana 1.
1. Capitula numerous in a dense compound corymb	P. suffruticosa 2.

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