''Dichaetaria'' is a genus of South Asian plants in the

grass family Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns and ...

. Slender perennial herbs, the leaves are narrow and flat.Bor, N. L. 1960. Grass. Burma, Ceylon, India & Pakistan i–767. Pergamon Press, Oxford ;Species The only known species is ''Dichaetaria wightii'', native to

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

and Tamil Nadu.

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Molinieae Bunchgrasses of Asia Grasses of India Flora of Sri Lanka Flora of Tamil Nadu Monotypic Poaceae genera Taxa named by Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck {{Poaceae-stub