Schoenefeldiella transiens is a species of flowering plant in the grass family, Poaceae.

It is the sole species in genus Schoenefeldiella.

It is a perennial native to eastern and southern Africa, ranging from Ethiopia and Sudan to Mpumalanga in northern South Africa.

[1] The species was first named Chloris transiens by Robert Knud Friedrich Pilger in 1914.

In 2021 Paul M. Peterson placed it in the new monotypic genus Schoenefeldiella as Schoenefeldiella transiens.