Alepidea amatymbica Eckl. & Zeyh.  
A robust, erect perennial herb reaching up to 2 m tall, featuring a hollow, grooved, branched stem and aromatic rootstock. Its triangular, prominently toothed leaves form a basal rosette, with stem leaves lacking stalks. The flat-topped flowers, 20 mm wide, have 5 unequal bracts, white to pale yellow above and olive-green below, blooming from late summer to autumn.
This species is naturally found in the Amathole Mountains in Eastern Cape, extending along the east coast to KwaZulu-Natal and along the eastern border of Lesotho. It typically occurs on west- to south-facing slopes along drainage lines, in damp grassland near streams, or in rocky grassland at altitudes of 1 520–2 590 m.

Alepidea macowanii Dummer
A robust, erect perennial herb reaching up to 2 m tall, with a hollow, grooved, branched stem and a thick, aromatic rootstock. The basal leaves are arranged in a loose rosette, simple, and range from 100 to 380 mm long and 20 to 135 mm wide. A. macowannii is distinguished by its crisped, lobed, multi-toothed leaf margins with inward-pointing setae, present in both basal leaves and peduncular bracts. Its equal or nearly equal involucral bracts differentiate it from A. amatymbica.
This species is found only in the Amathole mountain range, Eastern Cape, on steep, moist, south-facing rocky slopes.

Alepidea pusilla Weim.
A dwarf perennial herb with short flowering stems, reaching 100-150 mm in height. It forms a basal rosette of thick leaves, 8-15 mm long and 4-7 mm wide, with bluntly toothed margins and no bristles. The white flowerheads feature 5 oval bracts with prominent net veins and appear in summer (January to February).
Endemic to the Eastern Mountain Region (EMR), including Lesotho's high mountains, it thrives in marshy turf at altitudes from 2 100 to 3 300 m.

Alepidea peduncularis Steud. ex A.Rich.
A herbaceous, perennial plant producing strongly branched stems up to 1.2 m tall from a cluster of thick, fleshy, fibrous roots. The leaves are usually basal, up to 200 mm long in matured plants, hairless; margin toothed with a very prominent cilia at the apex of the teeth; petiole up to 100 mm long, sheathing at the base. Inflorescence branched, terminal; each branch with a terminal small dense head of minute florets subtended by a whorl of conspicuous white triangular bracts, the whole head resembling a single white-petaled flower. The leaves are edible, and the roots are used in medicine.
Found in grassland, open places in montane forest and woodland, rocky hillsides, often in seepage zones, from the Drakensberg region in southern Africa to Ethiopia, Sudan and DRC.