Empodium

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

Empodium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Hypoxidaceae, first described in 1866.^[2] 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, Swaziland, Lesotho, and Namibia.^[1]^[3]

Species^[1]

(Nel) B.L.Burtt - Lesotho, Swaziland, Lesotho
(Nel) M.F.Thomps. ex Snijman - Cape Province
(Nel) B.L.Burtt - Cape Province
(Nel) B.L.Burtt - KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland
(Baker) M.F.Thomps. - Cape Province
(Thunb.) Garside - Cape Province
(Willd.) M.F.Thomps. - Cape Province

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^ "Empodium gloriosum - a low flowering plant of the Cape".
^ "Empodium_Rareplants". Archived from the original on 2013-11-03.

External links[]

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[s-1] Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families

[2] "Empodium gloriosum - a low flowering plant of the Cape".

[3] "Empodium_Rareplants". Archived from the original on 2013-11-03.

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