Citation: Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 3:166 (1898).

Synonymy: Chrysanthemum incanurn Thunb., Prod. Pl. Cap. 2:161 (1800); Penlzia virgata Less., Syn. Comp. 226 (1832). , Chrysanthemum incanum, Pentzia virgata

Common name: African sheep bush.

Description:
Spreading undershrub to 40 cm high; stems ascending, densely branched, striate, finely white-tomentose when young, becoming woody, brittle; leaves oblanceolate to spathulate, to 1 cm long, 2-5 mm wide, pinnatisect with 3-7 linear segments less than 1 mm wide, greyish, densely appressed-pubescent.

Capitula solitary or 2 or 3 in a loose corymb on peduncles 1-3 cm long, 5-7 mm diam.; involucres hemispherical, c. 2 mm long; bracts c. 3-seriate, unequal, ovate, green with scarious margins; florets far exceeding the involucre, 5-merous, yellow.

Achenes asymmetrically cuneate, c. 2 mm long, 5-ribbed, brown, glabrous; pappus a scarious crown, irregular, c. 1 mm long, white.

Distribution:  In shrub steppe. S.Aust.: FR, EA.   Native to South Africa. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Aug. — Nov.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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