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G.370. Eleusine
Description of the genus
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. Worldwide: 10 species mostly in east and northeast Africa; 1 a cosmopolitan weed (indica) and 1 confined to S America |
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| Species | Links to maps | FZ divisions | Content |
| africana Kenn.-O'Byrne | Altitude Rainfall Geology | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| coracana (L.) Gaertn. | Altitude Rainfall Geology | C | |
| indica (L.) Gaertn. | Altitude Rainfall Geology | N,W,C,E |
Other sources of information about Eleusine:
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Eleusine pageFlora of Mozambique: Eleusine
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Eleusine
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Eleusine
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Eleusine
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Eleusine
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Eleusine
Kew Monocotyledon checklist: Eleusine
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