{{Short description|Genus of grasses}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Inflorescence of Oropetium roxburghianum (Schult.) S.M. Phillips.jpg |image_upright = 0.6 |image_caption = Inflorescence of ''Oropetium roxburghianum'' |display_parents = 3 |taxon = Oropetium |authority = Trin. |synonyms_ref = <ref name=c>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=426516 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref> |synonyms = * ''Chaetostichium'' <small>C.E.Hubb.</small> * ''Lepturella'' <small>Stapf</small> }}
'''''Oropetium''''' is a genus of Asian and African plants in the grass family.<ref>Trinius, Carl Bernhard von. 1820. Fundamenta Agrostographiae page 98, plate 3</ref><ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40033828 Tropicos, ''Oropetium'' Trin.]</ref><ref>Phillips, S. M. 1975. A review of the genus ''Oropetium'' (Gramineae). Kew Bull. 30(3): 467–470</ref>
; Species<ref name=c/><ref>[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Oropetium The Plant List search for ''Oropetium'']</ref> * ''Oropetium aristatum'' <small>(Stapf) Pilg.</small> - tropical West Africa * ''Oropetium capense'' <small>Stapf</small> - Arabian Peninsula, desert and near-desert regions of Africa * ''Oropetium minimum'' <small>(Hochst.) Pilg.</small> - Arabian Peninsula, eastern + northeastern Africa * ''Oropetium roxburghianum'' <small>(Schult.) S.M.Phillips</small> - India * ''Oropetium thomaeum'' <small>(L.f.) Trin.</small> - eastern + northeastern Africa, Indian subcontinent, Myanmar, Vietnam * ''Oropetium villosulum'' <small>Stapf ex Bor</small> - India
; Formerly included<ref name=c/> see ''Tripogon'' * ''Oropetium africanum - Tripogon africanus''
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00438.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora]
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Category:Chloridoideae Category:Poaceae genera
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