Batochloa

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

{{Speciesbox

|genus = Batochloa

|parent_authority = Salariato & Zuloaga

|species = deusta

|authority = (Thunb.) Salariato & Zuloaga

|synonyms =

• Panicum arundinifolium {{small|Schweinf.}}
• Panicum corymbiferum {{small|Nees ex Steud.}}
• Panicum deustum {{small|Thunb. (1794)}} (basionym)
• Panicum deustum var. eburneum {{small|Chiov.}}
• Panicum deustum var. hirsutum {{small|Peter}}
• Panicum leptocaulon {{small|Trin.}}
• Panicum menyharthii {{small|Hack.}}
• Panicum pubivaginatum {{small|K.Schum.}}
• Panicum unguiculatum {{small|Trin.}}

|synonyms_ref = {{cite web |title=Batochloa deusta (Thunb.) Salariato & Zuloaga |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77319971-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=15 May 2025}}

}}

Batochloa is a genus of grasses. It includes a single species, Batochloa deusta, commonly known as broadleaf panicum{{cite web |title=Panicum deustum Thunb. |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/4148783 |website=GBIF Backbone Taxonomy |publisher=GBIF Secretariat |access-date=15 May 2025}} or rietbuffelgras.{{cite web |last1=von Staden |first1=L. |title=Panicum deustum Thunb. |url=https://redlist.sanbi.org/species.php?species=1262-12 |website=Red List of South African Plants |publisher=South African National Biodiversity Institute |access-date=15 May 2025}} It is a tufted or shortly rhizomatous perennial native to Senegal and to eastern and southern Africa from Sudan to South Africa. It grows in forests, deciduous bushland and grassland on argillaceous (heavy clay) or arenaceous (sandy) soils.{{cite web |last1=Hyde | first1=M.A. |last2=Wursten| first2=B.T.|last3= Ballings|first3=P.|last4=Coates Palgrave|first4=M.|title=Panicum deustum Thunb. |url=https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=106170 |website=Flora of Mozambique |access-date=15 May 2025}}

Batochloa deusta is a larval food plant for the butterflies banded evening brown (Gnophodes betsimena diversa) and gold spotted sylph (Metisella metis paris).