Hackelochloa is a genus of Asian and African plants in the grass family.Grassbase - The World Online Grass FloraFlora of China Vol. 22 Page 646 球穗草属 qiu sui cao shu Hackelochloa Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 776. 1891.
The genus was named after Eduard Hackel, an Austrian botanist, by Otto Kuntze, in 1891.Kuntze, Carl Ernst Otto 1891. Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 776 in German
Species The Plant List search for Hackelochloa Hackelochloa granularis (L.) Kuntze - sub-Saharan Africa; southern Asia from Yemen to Japan to Indonesia; Papuasia, Micronesia; naturalized in Western Hemisphere from Maryland to Paraguay Hackelochloa porifera (Hack.) D. Rhind. - Yunnan, Bhutan, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Myanmar, Vietnam
References
External links line drawing of Hackelochloa porifera from Flora of China Illustrations vol. 22, fig. 901, 4-5