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 cm 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