Oplismenus

Contains 3 accepted taxa overall.

Characteristics
Oplismenus P.Beauv.
POACEAE
BASKETGRASS
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Classification
POALES
Oplismenus
Citation
OPLISMENUS Palisot de Beauvois, Fl. Oware 2: 14, pl. 68. 1810 ("1807"), nom. cons. vs. Orthopogon R. Brown 1810.
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TYPE: Oplismenus africanus Palisot de Beauvois
Distribution Map Present

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Species
Scientific Name Common Name Herbarium Specimens Status Photos
Oplismenus burmannii BURMANN'S BASKETGRASS; ZACATILLO Not Native
Oplismenus hirtellus WOODSGRASS; BASKETGRASS Not Native FAC (NWPL) T (WAP) FAC (DEP)
Oplismenus setarius WOODSGRASS; BASKETGRASS Native
Identification Key
1.  Leaf blades generally more ovate-lanceolate; awns slender, whitish, and minutely antrorsely scabrous; stigma pale, whitish, inconspicuous
O. burmannii
1.  Leaf blades generally more lanceolate to linear-lanceolate; awns thicker, reddish, scabrous; stigma red, conspciuous
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2.  Larger leaf blades >6 cm long; fertile part of inflorescence usually >7 cm long
O. hirtellus
2.  Larger leaf blades <5.5 cm long; fertile part of inflorescence <7 cm long
O. setarius
Genus Synonyms
Synonym Full Citation Basionym Type
Hekaterosachne Hekaterosachne Steudel, Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 118. 1854. TYPE: Hekaterosachne elatior Steudel
Hippagrostis Hippagrostis Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 776. 1891. TYPE: = Oplismenus Palisot de Beauvois 1810.
Orthopogon Orthopogon R. Brown, Prodr. 194. 1810, nom. rej. vs. Oplismenus Palisot de Beauvois 1810. TYPE: Orthopogon compositus (Linnaeus) R. Brown (Panicum compositum Linnaeus) Lectotypified by Hitchcock, U.S.D.A. Bull. (1915-1923) 772: 238. 1920.