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Eleusine
EOL Text
Annuals or perennials. Inflorescence composed of digitate or subdigitate racemes borne on a short axis; racemes with 2-seriate spikelets, terminating in a fertile spikelet. Spikelets several-flowered, laterally flattened, disarticulating above the glumes and between the florets (not the latter in E. coracana). Glumes 1-several-nerved, shorter than the lemmas, awnless. Lemmas 3-nerved, strongly keeled, sometimes the keels thickened and containing 1-3 closely spaced extra nerves, glabrous, obtuse to acute.
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:98
Specimens with Sequences:171
Specimens with Barcodes:78
Species:12
Species With Barcodes:12
Public Records:79
Public Species:10
Public BINs:0
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 (E. indica), is a widespread weed in many places. Another species E. coracana, is finger millet, cultivated as a cereal grain in India and parts of Africa.[7]
- 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, Zaïre, 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 Fernández Islands
- formerly 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 Wangenheimia
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§References[edit]
- ^ lectotype designated by Nash in Britton & 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
- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ The Plant List search for Eleusine
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