Streptochaetoideae Butzin (1965) Anomochlooideae is a subfamily of the true grass family Poaceae.

It includes perennial herbs that grow on the shaded floor of forests in the Neotropics.

Anomochlooideae are terrestrial,[3] rhizomatous, perennial herbs with pseudopetiolate, broad leaves.

[4] It was validly published in 1957 by Eva Hedwig Ingeborg Potztal based on previous work from Robert Knud Friedrich Pilger.

[1][5] This subfamily is the most early-diverging lineage of the grasses:[6] Anomochlooideae Pharoideae Puelioideae BOP clade PACMAD clade Anomochloa marantoidea is almost extinct in the wild.