Orthoclada

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Orthoclada laxa imported from iNaturalist photo 58323953 on 30 December 2023.jpg

| image_caption = Orthoclada laxa

| display_parents = 2

| taxon = Orthoclada

| authority = P.Beauv.

| type_species = Orthoclada rariflora
(syn of O. laxa)

| type_species_authority = P.Beauv.

}}

Orthoclada is a genus of African and Neotropical plants in the grass family.[http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00440.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora][https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/394148#page/153/mode/1up Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie pages 69-70] in Latin[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/394148#page/299/mode/1up Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie plate XIV (14), figure IX (9 a-e)] line drawings of Orthoclada rariflora (syn of O. laxa); [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/394148#page/276/mode/1up figure captions in French on caption page 10]

; Species[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=426543 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families][http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Orthoclada The Plant List search for Orthoclada]

• Orthoclada africana C.E.Hubb. - Zaire, Tanzania, Zambia
• Orthoclada laxa (Rich.) P.Beauv. - southern Mexico, Central America, Lesser Antilles, Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela, French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil