Lophatherum

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image =Lophatherum gracile sasakusa01.JPG

|display_parents = 2

|taxon = Lophatherum

|authority = Brongn.

|type_species_authority = Brongn.

|type_species = Lophatherum gracile

|synonyms_ref = [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=422942 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]

|synonyms =

• Acroelytrum Steud.
• Allelotheca Steud.

}}

Lophatherum is a genus of Asian and Australian plants in the grass family.Brongniart, Adolphe Théodore in Duperrey, Louis Isodore. 1831. Voyage Autour de Monde, Execute par Ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette de Sa Majeste La Coquille, Phanerogamie 2(2): 49[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40008629 Tropicos, Lophatherum Brongn. ][http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00355.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora]{{cite web|url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=118888 |title=Lophatherum in Flora of China @ |publisher=Efloras.org |date= |accessdate=2022-05-01}}

; Species[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=118888 Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 445 淡竹叶属 dan zhu ye shu Lophatherum Brongniart in Duperrey, Voy. Monde. 2: 49. 1831. ]

• Lophatherum gracile Brongn. - Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Indochina, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Queensland
• Lophatherum sinense Rendle - Japan, Korea, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Zhejiang

; Formerly included

see Poecilostachys

• Lophatherum geminatum - Poecilostachys geminata