Oropetium

Oropetium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Oropetium
Trin.
Synonyms[1]
  • Lepturella Stapf
  • Chaetostichium C.E.Hubb.

Oropetium is a genus of Asian and African plants in the grass family.[2][3][4]

Species[1][5]
  1. Oropetium aristatum (Stapf) Pilg. - tropical West Africa
  2. Oropetium capense Stapf - Arabian Peninsula, desert and near-desert regions of Africa
  3. Oropetium minimum (Hochst.) Pilg. - Arabian Peninsula, eastern + northeastern Africa
  4. Oropetium roxburghianum (Schult.) S.M.Phillips - India
  5. Oropetium thomaeum (L.f.) Trin. - eastern + northeastern Africa, Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar, Vietnam
  6. Oropetium villosulum Stapf ex Bor - India
formerly included[1]

see Tripogon

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Trinius, Carl Bernhard von. 1820. Fundamenta Agrostographiae page 98, plate 3
  3. ↑ Tropicos, Oropetium Trin.
  4. ↑ Phillips, S. M. 1975. A review of the genus Oropetium (Gramineae). Kew Bull. 30(3): 467–470
  5. ↑ The Plant List search for Oropetium

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