Ess. Agros. 80, t. 16/9 (1812); Gen. Gram.: 209 (1986) (as syn. of Leptochloa).- Type-species: Diplachne fusca (Linn.) P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult.
Description:
* Aquatic or semi-aquatic annuals or perennials, caespitose or rhizomatous. Leaves membranous, linear and inrolled, relatively long and acute.
* Inflorescence open, composed of several to numerous racemes scattered around a central axis. Racemes slender, straight or flexuous, secund.
* Spikelets with 6-20 florets, narrow, acuminate, often rounded, biseriate disarticulating between the florets. Glumes 1-nerved, persistent, shorter than or about as long as the florets, apices acute. Lemmas 3-nerved, rounded or flattened on the back, often with a dark spot near the base, acute to truncate or bifid, mucronate to awned.
Genus with 18 species in the tropics and subtropics.