Oropetium Explained

Oropetium is a genus of Asian and African plants in the grass family.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Species^[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 includedsee Tripogon

• Oropetium africanum - Tripogon africanus

External links

• Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora

Notes and References

1. Trinius, Carl Bernhard von. 1820. Fundamenta Agrostographiae page 98, plate 3
2. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40033828 Tropicos, Oropetium Trin.
3. Phillips, S. M. 1975. A review of the genus Oropetium (Gramineae). Kew Bull. 30(3): 467–470
4. http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Oropetium The Plant List search for Oropetium