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Home Plants magnoliophyta liliopsida asparagales hypoxidaceae Empodium

Salisb.

1866

autumn stars

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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 Empodium elongatum (Nel) B.L.Burtt – Lesotho, Eswatini, Lesotho Empodium flexile (Nel) M.F.Thomps. ex Snijman – Cape Province Empodium gloriosum (Nel) B.L.Burtt – Cape Province Empodium monophyllum (Nel) B.L.Burtt – KwaZulu-Natal, Eswatini Empodium namaquensis (Baker) M.F.Thomps. – Cape Province Empodium plicatum (Thunb.) Garside – Cape Province Empodium veratrifolium (Willd.) M.F.Thomps. – Cape Province...read more on Wikipedia.