Pentzia

Herbs or small shrubs. Leaves alternate. Capitula discoid, usually solitary and pedunculate or corymbose, homogamous with bisexual, fertile disk florets. Receptacular scales 0. Phyllaries 4-seriate, usually ovate; margin membranous. Pappus of 1 lateral, broad, membranous scale, or a membranous cup or a toothed crown or 0.

Pentzia is a genus of African plants in the chamomile tribe within the sunflower family. One species (P. incana) is naturalized in Australia and in the southwestern United States.

The genus is named for Swedish plant collector Hendrik Christian Pentz, 1738–1803.

Species Pentzia arabica Thulin Pentzia argentea Hutch. Pentzia bolusii Hutch. Pentzia burchellii Fenzl ex Harv. & Sond. Pentzia calcarea Kies Pentzia calva S.Moore Pentzia cooperi Harv. Pentzia cotuloides DC. Pentzia crenata Thunb. Pentzia dentata (L.) Kuntze Pentzia elegans DC. Pentzia globosa Less. Pentzia hesperidum Maire & Wilczek Pentzia incana (Thunb.) Kuntze Pentzia lanata Hutch. Pentzia microphylla DC. Pentzia monocephala S.Moore Pentzia monodiana Maire Pentzia nana Burch. Pentzia peduncularis B.Nord. Pentzia pinnatisecta Hutch. Pentzia punctata Harv. Pentzia quinquefida (Thunb.) Less. Pentzia somalensis E.A.Bruce ex Thulin Pentzia sphaerocephala DC. Pentzia spinescens Less. Pentzia suffruticosa (L.) Hutch. Pentzia tomentosa B.Nord. Pentzia tortuosa (DC.) Fenzl ex Harv. Pentzia trifida Schltr. ex Magee & J.C.Manning Pentzia trifurcata Sch.Bip. Pentzia viridis Kies formerly included

numerous species once considered part of Pentzia now regarded as better suited to other genera: Foveolina Gymnopentzia Inulanthera Myxopappus Oncosiphon Phymaspermum Rennera