Ophiuros exaltatus

{{Short description|Species of plant}}{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} {{Speciesbox | image =  | genus = Ophiuros | species = exaltatus | authority = (L.) Kuntze | synonyms_ref = <ref name="POWO_409769-1" /> | synonyms = * ''Aegilops exaltata'' {{small|L.}} * ''Mnesithea exaltata'' {{small|(L.) Skeels}} * ''Ophiuros corymbosus'' {{small|C.F.Gaertn.}} * ''Ophiuros tongcalingii'' {{small|(Elmer) Henrard}} * ''Rottboellia corymbosa'' {{small|L.f.}} * ''Rottboellia exaltata'' {{small|(L.) Naezén}} * ''Rottboellia punctata'' {{small|Retz.}} * ''Rottboellia tongcalingii'' {{small|Elmer}} }}

'''''Ophiuros exaltatus''''' is a species of flowering plant in the grass family Poaceae.<ref name="since_L" >{{cite journal |last1=Gosavi |first1=Kumar Vinod C. |last2=Kambale |first2=Sharad S. |last3=Janarthanam |first3=Malapati K. |title=Taxonomic status, occurrence and lectotypification in the genus ''Ophiuros'' (Poaceae) in India |journal=Phytotaxa |date=2019 |volume=427 |issue=3 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.427.3.5 }}</ref> It is native to the seasonally dry tropics of the Indian Subcontinent, southern China, Southeast Asia, some of the islands of Malesia, New Guinea, and northern Australia.<ref name="POWO_409769-1" >{{cite POWO |id=409769-1 |title=''Ophiuros exaltatus'' (L.) Kuntze |access-date=13 May 2026 }}</ref> A tufted perennial grass reaching {{cvt|0.5|to|1.5|m|in|-1}}, since Linnaeus it has been subject to taxonomic confusion with the much more widespread and invasive grass ''Rottboellia exaltata'' {{small|L.f.}} (now ''Rottboellia cochinchinensis'').<ref name="since_L" />

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Category:Andropogoneae Category:Flora of the Indian subcontinent Category:Flora of South-Central China Category:Flora of Southeast China Category:Flora of Hainan Category:Flora of the Ryukyu Islands Category:Flora of Indo-China Category:Flora of Malaya Category:Flora of Java Category:Flora of the Lesser Sunda Islands Category:Flora of the Philippines Category:Flora of New Guinea Category:Flora of Western Australia Category:Flora of the Northern Territory Category:Flora of Queensland Category:Plants described in 1891