Eleusine

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Eleusine indica Habitus BotGardBln0906.JPG |image_caption = ''Eleusine indica'' |display_parents = 3 |taxon = Eleusine |authority = Gaertn. |type_species = ''Eleusine coracana'' |type_species_authority = (L.) Gaertn.<ref>lectotype designated by Nash in Britton & Brown, Ill. Fl. N. U.S. (ed. 2) 1: 228 (1913)</ref><ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40002069 Tropicos, Eleusine Gaertn.]</ref> |synonyms_ref = <ref name=g/> |synonyms = * ''Elevsine'' <small>Gaertn., alternate spelling</small> }}

'''''Eleusine''''' is a genus of Asian, African, and South American plants in the grass family,<ref name=g>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37173991#page/205/mode/1up Gaertner, Joseph. 1788. De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum 1: pages 7–8] descriptions and figure captions in Latin</ref><ref name=ga>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37173991#page/592/mode/1up Gaertner, Joseph. 1788. De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum 1: Plate I (1), figure XI (11 a-i)] line drawings of ''Eleusine coracana''</ref> sometimes called by the common name '''goosegrass'''.<ref>[http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Eleusine.html Multilingual ''Eleusine'' common names]</ref><ref>[https://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ELEUS US Department of Agriculture Plants Profile]</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?4171 |title=USDA Genetic Resources Information Network |access-date=2009-10-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090508043533/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?4171 |archive-date=2009-05-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

; Species<ref name=s>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=451451 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref><ref>[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Eleusine The Plant List search for ''Eleusine'']</ref> * ''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<ref name=s/> 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''

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?8738,8961 Jepson Manual Treatment] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110611134112/http://herbarium.usu.edu/webmanual/info2.asp?name=Eleusine&type=treatment Grass Manual Treatment]

Category:Chloridoideae Category:Poaceae genera