Empodium

Empodium
Empodium plicatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	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. 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.

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