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The genus Oropetium is in the family Poaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Oropetium

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Oropetium aristatum (Stapf) Pilg.	Accepted		WCSP
Oropetium capense Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Oropetium minimum (Hochst.) Pilg.	Accepted		WCSP
Oropetium roxburghianum (Schult.) S.M.Phillips	Accepted		WCSP
Oropetium thomaeum (L.f.) Trin.	Accepted		WCSP
Oropetium villosulum Stapf ex Bor	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 14 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Oropetium. Of these 6 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 3 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Oropetium. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 14 species names for the genus Oropetium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	6	42.9%
◕	Synonym	8	57.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 17 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Oropetium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	6	35.3%
◕	Synonym	11	64.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of these names,

• 2 are recorded as invalid

The confidence with which the status of the 14 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Oropetium, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	6	7	0	0	13	92.9%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	7.1%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Oropetium, are as follows: