Alepidea

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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| image = Alepidea masaica 01.jpg

| image_alt = Flowerheads from above of the umbellifer species "Alepidea masaica", photographed along the Chogoria route, Mount Kenya, at approximately 3000 m altitude

| image_caption = Flowerheads from above of Alepidea masaica, photographed along the Chogoria route, Mount Kenya, at approximately 3000 m altitude

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| taxon = Alepidea

| authority = F.Delaroche

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text.

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Alepidea is a genus of about 30 species in the family Apiaceae, all of which are endemic to Africa. They occur mainly in southern Africa,{{Cite journal|last1=de Castro|first1=A.|last2=van Wyk|first2=B. -E.|date=1994-12-01|title=Diagnostic characters and geographic distribution of Alepidea species used in traditional medicine|journal=South African Journal of Botany|language=en|volume=60|issue=6|pages=345–350|doi=10.1016/S0254-6299(16)30590-7|issn=0254-6299|doi-access=free}} but can be found as far north as Ethiopia.