Empodium

Empodium
Empodium plicatum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Hypoxidaceae
Genus: Empodium
Salisb.
Synonyms[1]
  • 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, Eswatini, Lesotho, and Namibia.[1][3]

Species[1]
  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
  1. ^ a b c 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.