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Volume 64, Issue 1, July 2022

Articles

The Genus Orotpetium Trin. in India

https://doi.org/10.20324/nelumbo/v64/2022/170629

Published 2022-08-02

  • Nagaraju Siddabathula
    • ,
  • Rajeev Kumar Singh
    • ,
  • Ravi kiran Arigela
    • ,
  • Prasad Kothareddy

Nagaraju Siddabathula
Botanical Survey of India, Headquarters, CGO Complex, 3rd MSO Building, DF-Block, 5th & 6th Floor, Salt Lake City, Kolkata - 700 064, West Bengal

Rajeev Kumar Singh
Botanical Survey of India, Industrial Section Indian Museum, 1 Sudder Street, Kolkata - 700 016 West Bengal

Ravi kiran Arigela
Botanical Survey of India, Deccan Regional Centre, Kendriya Sadan, Koti, Hyderabad - 500 095, Telengana

Prasad Kothareddy
Yogi Vemana University, Kadapa - 516 005, Andhra Pradesh

Abstract

A taxonomic revision of the Indian species of Oropetium Trin. (family Poaceae, subfamily Chloridoideae) is presented here. Detailed descriptions, coloured photo plates, distribution, ecological data and identification keys to the species are provided.

Keywords

Grass, Holotype, Lectotype, Rottboellia biflora, Tripogon purpurascens.

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