# Oropetium

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{{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.](/source/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](/source/genus) of Asian and African plants in the [grass family](/source/Poaceae).<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](/source/Oropetium_aristatum)'' <small>(Stapf) Pilg.</small> - tropical [West Africa](/source/West_Africa)
* ''[Oropetium capense](/source/Oropetium_capense)'' <small>Stapf</small>  - [Arabian Peninsula](/source/Arabian_Peninsula), desert and near-desert regions of [Africa](/source/Africa)
* ''[Oropetium minimum](/source/Oropetium_minimum)'' <small>(Hochst.) Pilg.</small>  - [Arabian Peninsula](/source/Arabian_Peninsula), eastern + northeastern [Africa](/source/Africa)
* ''[Oropetium roxburghianum](/source/Oropetium_roxburghianum)'' <small>(Schult.) S.M.Phillips</small> - [India](/source/India)
* ''[Oropetium thomaeum](/source/Oropetium_thomaeum)'' <small>(L.f.) Trin.</small> - eastern + northeastern [Africa](/source/Africa), [Indian subcontinent](/source/Indian_subcontinent), [Myanmar](/source/Myanmar), [Vietnam](/source/Vietnam)
* ''[Oropetium villosulum](/source/Oropetium_villosulum)'' <small>Stapf ex Bor</small> - [India](/source/India)

; Formerly included<ref name=c/>
see ''[Tripogon](/source/Tripogon)'' 
* ''Oropetium africanum - [Tripogon africanus](/source/Tripogon_africanus)''

==References==
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==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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