Poephila is an Australian genus of estrildid finches.

The adults have pinkish underparts, buff or brown upperparts, a black tail and lower belly, and white rumps uppertail coverts and undertail coverts. Males and females closely resemble each other, although the male is a little larger.

These are birds of dry open grassland, occurring from the north-west to the eastern coast of Australia. They glean seed from the ground or seed-heads of grasses, occasionally supplementing their diet with insects.

The genus Poephila was introduced in 1842 by the English ornithologist John Gould in his The Birds of Australia in which he placed several species in the genus but did not specify a type species. In February of 1842 at a meeting of the Zoological Society in London, Gould had designated the type as Amadina acuticauda Gould, the long-tailed finch, but a report on this meeting was not published until November. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek ποιη/poiē meaning "grass" with φιλος/philos meaning "lover".

The genus contains the following three species: