Ophiuros exaltatus
Species of plant
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Ophiuros exaltatus is a species of flowering plant in the grass family Poaceae.[2] It is native to the seasonally dry tropics of the Indian Subcontinent, southern China, Southeast Asia, some of the islands of Malesia, New Guinea, and northern Australia.[1] A tufted perennial grass reaching 0.5 to 1.5 m (20 to 60 in), since Linnaeus it has been subject to taxonomic confusion with the much more widespread and invasive grass Rottboellia exaltata L.f. (now Rottboellia cochinchinensis).[2]
| Ophiuros exaltatus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
| Genus: | Ophiuros |
| Species: | O. exaltatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Ophiuros exaltatus | |
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