Oropetium

Genus of grasses

Oropetium
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Chloridoideae
Tribe: Cynodonteae
Subtribe: Tripogoninae
Genus: Oropetium
Trin.
Synonyms[1]
  • Chaetostichium C.E.Hubb.
  • Lepturella Stapf

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

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

see Tripogon

  • Oropetium africanum - Tripogon africanus

References

  1. ^ a b c 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

External links

  • Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
Taxon identifiers
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