Empodium

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Empodium
Empodium plicatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Hypoxidaceae
Genus: Empodium
Salisb.

Empodium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Hypoxidaceae.[1] 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. They are also found in winter-rainfall areas in South Africa and Namibia.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Empodium gloriosum - a low flowering plant of the Cape". 
  2. ↑ "Empodium_Rareplants". 

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