Empodium

Empodium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Hypoxidaceae, first described in 1866. It grows from a small corm which produces lance-shaped or pleated and sometimes hairy, star-shaped flowers and leaves with 10–30 centimetres (4–12 in) long in Autumn season. The genus is native to winter-rainfall areas in South Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho, and Namibia.

Empodium
Empodium plicatum
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Tracheophytes
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Monocots
Order:Asparagales
Family:Hypoxidaceae
Genus:EmpodiumSalisb.
Fabricia Thunb. 1779, illegitimate, not Adans. 1763 nor Scop. 1777
Forbesia Eckl. ex Nel

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Empodium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Hypoxidaceae, first described in 1866. It grows from a small corm which produces lance-shaped or pleated and sometimes hairy, star-shaped flowers and leaves with 10–30 centimetres (4–12 in) long in Autumn season. The genus is native to winter-rainfall areas in South Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho, and Namibia.

Species

  1. Empodium elongatum (Nel) B.L.Burtt – Lesotho, Eswatini, Lesotho
  2. Empodium flexile (Nel) M.F.Thomps. ex Snijman – Cape Province
  3. Empodium gloriosum (Nel) B.L.Burtt – Cape Province
  4. Empodium monophyllum (Nel) B.L.Burtt – KwaZulu-Natal, Eswatini
  5. Empodium namaquensis (Baker) M.F.Thomps. – Cape Province
  6. Empodium plicatum (Thunb.) Garside – Cape Province
  7. Empodium veratrifolium (Willd.) M.F.Thomps. – Cape Province

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