Empodium Explained

Empodium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Hypoxidaceae, first described in 1866.^[1] It grows from a small corm which produces lance-shaped or pleated and sometimes hairy, star-shaped flowers and leaves with 10cm-30cmcm (00inches-10inchescm) long in Autumn season. The genus is native to winter-rainfall areas in South Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho, and Namibia.^{[2] [3]}

Species^[2]

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

External links

• Wisley Alpine Log

Notes and References

1. Web site: Empodium gloriosum - a low flowering plant of the Cape.
2. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=305370 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
3. Web site: Empodium_Rareplants . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131103090005/http://rareplants.co.uk/prodtype.asp?strParents=&CAT_ID=704&numRecordPosition=1 . 2013-11-03 .