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Autumn Stars
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, Swaziland, Lesotho, and Namibia.
7 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Plough Star
speciesEmpodium plicatum
Empodium gloriosum
speciesEmpodium gloriosum
Empodium flexile
speciesEmpodium flexile
Empodium veratrifolium
speciesEmpodium veratrifolium
Empodium namaquensis
speciesEmpodium namaquensis
Empodium elongatum
speciesEmpodium elongatum
Empodium monophyllum
speciesEmpodium monophyllum
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 526219.