{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Empodium plicatum (1).jpg | image_caption = ''Empodium plicatum'' | taxon = Empodium | authority = Salisb. | synonyms_ref = <ref name=s/> | synonyms = * ''Fabricia'' <small>Thunb. 1779, illegitimate, not Adans. 1763 nor Scop. 1777</small> *''Forbesia'' <small>Eckl. ex Nel</small> }}
'''''Empodium''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Hypoxidaceae, first described in 1866.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.galloimages.co.za/image/empodium-gloriosum-low-flowering-plant-of/127661/1| title= ''Empodium gloriosum'' - a low flowering plant of the Cape}}</ref> It grows from a small corm which produces lance-shaped or pleated and sometimes hairy, star-shaped flowers and leaves with {{convert|10|-|30|cm|0}} long in Autumn season. The genus is native to winter-rainfall areas in South Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho, and Namibia.<ref name=s>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=305370 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://rareplants.co.uk/prodtype.asp?strParents=&CAT_ID=704&numRecordPosition=1 |title=Empodium_Rareplants |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103090005/http://rareplants.co.uk/prodtype.asp?strParents=&CAT_ID=704&numRecordPosition=1 |archivedate=2013-11-03 }}</ref>
;Species<ref name=s/> # ''Empodium elongatum'' <small>(Nel) B.L.Burtt</small> – Lesotho, Eswatini, Lesotho # ''Empodium flexile'' <small>(Nel) M.F.Thomps. ex Snijman</small> – Cape Province # ''Empodium gloriosum'' <small>(Nel) B.L.Burtt</small> – Cape Province # ''Empodium monophyllum'' <small>(Nel) B.L.Burtt</small> – KwaZulu-Natal, Eswatini # ''Empodium namaquensis'' <small>(Baker) M.F.Thomps.</small> – Cape Province # ''Empodium plicatum'' <small>(Thunb.) Garside</small> – Cape Province # ''Empodium veratrifolium'' <small>(Willd.) M.F.Thomps.</small> – Cape Province
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==External links== *[http://www.srgc.org.uk/wisley/2007/190907/log.html Wisley Alpine Log]
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Category:Asparagales genera Category:Empodium Category:Flora of Southern Africa
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