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Oropetium

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Oropetium is a genus of Asian and African plants in the grass family.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassLiliopsida
  4. OrderPoales
  5. FamilyPoaceae

Oropetium (synoniem: Chaetostichium) is een geslacht uit de grassenfamilie (Poaceae). De soorten van dit geslacht komen voor in Afrika en Azië.

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
3
With media
2
Family
Poaceae
Collections
TAES, MNHN
Recorded in
Ethiopia, Kenya

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Oropetium is a genus of Asian and African plants in the grass family. Species 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 see Tripogon Oropetium africanum - Tripogon africanus

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oropetium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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