| Loudetia | |
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| Type specimen of Loudetia simplex | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
| Tribe: | Tristachyideae |
| Genus: | Loudetia Hochst. ex Steud. 1854, conserved name not Hochst. ex A. Braun 1841 |
| Type species | |
| Loudetia elegans Hochst. ex A. Braun. | |
Loudetia is a genus of African, Arabian, and South American plants in the grass family.
- Species
- Loudetia angolensis - Angola
- Loudetia annua - tropical Africa
- Loudetia arundinacea - tropical Africa
- Loudetia cerata - Chad, Central African Republic
- Loudetia coarctata - tropical Africa
- Loudetia cuanzensis - Angola
- Loudetia demeusei - Congo Republic, Zaïre
- Loudetia densispica - central + southern Africa
- Loudetia echinulata - Central African Rep
- Loudetia esculenta - Sudan
- Loudetia filifolia - Madagascar, Eswatini, Mpumalanga
- Loudetia flammida - tropical Africa, South America
- Loudetia flavida - Oman, tropical + southern Africa
- Loudetia furtiva - Cameroon
- Loudetia hordeiformis - tropical Africa
- Loudetia jaegeriana - Sierra Leone
- Loudetia kagerensis - tropical Africa
- Loudetia lanata - southern Africa
- Loudetia migiurtina - Somalia
- Loudetia phragmitoides - tropical Africa
- Loudetia pratii - Central African Rep
- Loudetia simplex - Madagascar, tropical + southern Africa
- Loudetia tisserantii - Central African Rep
- Loudetia togoensis - tropical Africa
- Loudetia vanderystii - Zaire, Congo Republic, Gabon
- formerly included
several species now considered better suited to other genera: Danthoniopsis Loudetiopsis Trichopteryx Tristachya