title: Empodium
text: # 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 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
  