Oropetium
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Oropetium is a genus of Asian and African plants in the grass family.[2][3][4]
- 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
- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Trinius, Carl Bernhard von. 1820. Fundamenta Agrostographiae page 98, plate 3
- ^ Tropicos, Oropetium Trin.
- ^ Phillips, S. M. 1975. A review of the genus Oropetium (Gramineae). Kew Bull. 30(3): 467–470
- ^ The Plant List search for Oropetium
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