{{Short description|Genus of grasses}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Leptochloa fusca subsp. uninervia.jpg |image_caption = ''Diplachne fusca'' |display_parents = 3 |taxon = Diplachne |authority = P.Beauv. 1812, not R.Br. ex. Desf. 1819 (Myrtaceae) |type_species_authority = (Lam.) P.Beauv. |type_species = ''Diplachne fascicularis'' }}
'''''Diplachne''''' is a genus of plants in the grass family, widespread over much of the world.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/394159#page/164/mode/1up Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie 80-81] description in Latin, commentary in French</ref><ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/394159#page/301/mode/1up Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie 80-81] line drawing of flowers of ''Diplachne fascicularis''</ref>
==Species== * ''Diplachne cuspidata'' <small>Launert</small> - Namibia * ''Diplachne fascicularis'' <small>(Lam.) P.Beauv.</small> - North America, West Indies, South America * ''Diplachne festuciformis'' <small>H.Scholz</small> - Libya * ''Diplachne fusca'' <small>(L.) P.Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult.</small> - North America, West Indies, South America, Asia, Africa, Australia * ''Diplachne gigantea'' <small>Launert</small> - Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Botswana
==Formerly included== over 100 species once considered part of ''Diplachne'' but now considered better suited to other genera: ''Bewsia Catapodium Cleistogenes Disakisperma Enteropogon Eragrostis Festuca Gouinia Leptocarydion Leptochloa Neyraudia Odyssea Orinus Pogonarthria Psilolemma Trichoneura Tripogon Triraphis Verticordia''
==References== {{Wikispecies}} {{Commons category|Diplachne}} {{Reflist}}
{{Taxonbar|from=Q8560136}}
Category:Chloridoideae Category:Poaceae genera Category:Taxa named by Palisot de Beauvois