Oropetium

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

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|taxon = Oropetium

|authority = Trin.

|synonyms_ref = [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=426516 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]

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• Chaetostichium C.E.Hubb.
• Lepturella Stapf

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Oropetium is a genus of Asian and African plants in the grass family.Trinius, Carl Bernhard von. 1820. Fundamenta Agrostographiae page 98, plate 3[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40033828 Tropicos, Oropetium Trin.]Phillips, S. M. 1975. A review of the genus Oropetium (Gramineae). Kew Bull. 30(3): 467–470

; Species[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Oropetium The Plant List search for Oropetium]

• 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