Empodium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Hypoxidaceae, first described in 1866.

[2] 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.

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