Eleusine africana – Africa (from South Africa to Egypt + Senegal), Madagascar, Comoros, Sinai, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman
Eleusine coracana – tropical Africa; naturalized in parts of Asia (Arabia, India, China, Japan, Indonesia, etc.), Western Australia, Fiji, Micronesia, etc.
eleusine, genus, asian, african, south, american, plants, grass, family, sometimes, called, common, name, goosegrass, species, indica, widespread, weed, many, places, another, species, coracana, finger, millet, cultivated, cereal, grain, india, parts, africa, . Eleusine is a genus of Asian African and South American plants in the grass family 3 4 sometimes called by the common name goosegrass 5 6 One species Eleusine indica is a widespread weed in many places Another species Eleusine coracana is finger millet cultivated as a cereal grain in India and parts of Africa 7 EleusineEleusine indicaScientific classificationKingdom PlantaeClade TracheophytesClade AngiospermsClade MonocotsClade CommelinidsOrder PoalesFamily PoaceaeSubfamily ChloridoideaeTribe CynodonteaeSubtribe EleusininaeGenus EleusineGaertn Type speciesEleusine coracana L Gaertn 1 2 Synonyms 3 Elevsine Gaertn alternate spelling Species 8 9 Eleusine africana Africa from South Africa to Egypt Senegal Madagascar Comoros Sinai Saudi Arabia Yemen Oman Eleusine coracana tropical Africa naturalized in parts of Asia Arabia India China Japan Indonesia etc Western Australia Fiji Micronesia etc Eleusine floccifolia Eritrea Ethiopia Somalia Yemen Eleusine indica Asia Africa Papuasia naturalized in Mediterranean Australia Americas various islands Eleusine intermedia Kenya Ethiopia Eleusine jaegeri Kenya Ethiopia Tanzania Uganda Eleusine kigeziensis Ethiopia Uganda Zaire Rwanda Burundi Eleusine multiflora Kenya Ethiopia Tanzania Eritrea Yemen Saudi Arabia naturalized in South Africa Mexico Lesotho Eleusine semisterilis Kenya Eleusine tristachya Brazil Bolivia Paraguay Uruguay Argentina Chile incl Juan Fernandez Islandsformerly included 8 numerous species once included in Eleusine but now considered better suited to other genera Acrachne Aeluropus Chloris Coelachyrum Dactyloctenium Dinebra Disakisperma Eragrostis Harpochloa Leptochloa Ochthochloa Sclerodactylon Uniola WangenheimiaReferences edit lectotype designated by Nash in Britton amp Brown Ill Fl N U S ed 2 1 228 1913 Tropicos Eleusine Gaertn a b Gaertner Joseph 1788 De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum 1 pages 7 8 descriptions and figure captions in Latin Gaertner Joseph 1788 De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum 1 Plate I 1 figure XI 11 a i line drawings of Eleusine coracana Multilingual Eleusine common names US Department of Agriculture Plants Profile USDA Genetic Resources Information Network Archived from the original on 2009 05 08 Retrieved 2009 10 15 a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families The Plant List search for EleusineExternal links editJepson Manual Treatment Grass Manual Treatment This Chloridoideae article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Eleusine amp oldid 1194035488, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
