Elytrophorus spicatus (common name spikegrass)[4] is a small plant in the Poaceae family native to Africa, the Indian subcontinent, south-east Asia and Australia.

[3] Elytrophorus spicatus is a tufted, annual or perennial plant with bristly culms.

The leaves are loosely sheathed, and the blades are rolled in bud.

[5] It is native to Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Cameroon, Chad, China, East Himalaya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Lesser Sunda Is., Mali, Mauritania, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Australia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Australia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Vietnam, Himalaya, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

[1][6] It was assigned to the genus, Elytrophorus, by Aimée Antoinette Camus in 1923.