# Diplachne

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{{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.](/source/P.Beauv.) 1812, not [R.Br.](/source/R.Br.) ex. [Desf.](/source/Desf.) 1819 ([Myrtaceae](/source/Myrtaceae))
|type_species_authority = ([Lam.](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Lamarck)) [P.Beauv.](/source/P.Beauv.)
|type_species = ''[Diplachne fascicularis](/source/Diplachne_fascicularis)''
}}

'''''Diplachne''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of plants in the [grass family](/source/Poaceae), 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](/source/Diplachne_cuspidata)'' <small>Launert</small> - [Namibia](/source/Namibia)
* ''[Diplachne fascicularis](/source/Diplachne_fascicularis)'' <small>([Lam.](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Lamarck)) P.Beauv.</small> - [North America](/source/North_America), [West Indies](/source/West_Indies), [South America](/source/South_America)
* ''[Diplachne festuciformis](/source/Diplachne_festuciformis)'' <small>H.Scholz</small> - [Libya](/source/Libya)
* ''[Diplachne fusca](/source/Diplachne_fusca)'' <small>(L.) P.Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult.</small> - [North America](/source/North_America), [West Indies](/source/West_Indies), [South America](/source/South_America), [Asia](/source/Asia), [Africa](/source/Africa), [Australia](/source/Australia)
* ''[Diplachne gigantea](/source/Diplachne_gigantea)'' <small>Launert</small> - [Tanzania](/source/Tanzania), [Angola](/source/Angola), [Zambia](/source/Zambia), [Botswana](/source/Botswana)

==Formerly included==
over 100 species once considered part of ''Diplachne'' but now considered better suited to other genera: ''[Bewsia](/source/Bewsia) [Catapodium](/source/Catapodium) [Cleistogenes](/source/Cleistogenes) [Disakisperma](/source/Disakisperma) [Enteropogon](/source/Enteropogon) [Eragrostis](/source/Eragrostis) [Festuca](/source/Festuca) [Gouinia](/source/Gouinia) [Leptocarydion](/source/Leptocarydion) [Leptochloa](/source/Leptochloa) [Neyraudia](/source/Neyraudia) [Odyssea](/source/Odyssea) [Orinus](/source/Orinus) [Pogonarthria](/source/Pogonarthria) [Psilolemma](/source/Psilolemma) [Trichoneura](/source/Trichoneura_(plant)) [Tripogon](/source/Tripogon) [Triraphis](/source/Triraphis) [Verticordia](/source/Verticordia)''

==References==
{{Wikispecies}}
{{Commons category|Diplachne}}
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Category:Chloridoideae
Category:Poaceae genera
Category:Taxa named by Palisot de Beauvois

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