Chasechloa is a grass genus in the tribe Paniceae (subtribe Boivinellinae),[2] endemic to Madagascar.

[3] It was described by French botanist Aimée Antoinette Camus in 1948, who named it in honour of Mary Agnes Chase.

[4][1] Its two species were also classified in the genera Echinolaena and Panicum, but phylogenetic analysis confirmed that they form a distinct lineage.

The genus can be distinguished from similar forest grass species in Acroceras, Brachiaria, Urochloa and Poecilostachys by its denser and thicker racemes.

[5]: 42 The upper florets have oily appendages, elaiosomes, which suggest seed dispersal by ants (myrmecochory), although this has not directly been observed.