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Eleusine
Eleusine is a genus of Asian, African, and South American plants in the grass family, sometimes referred to by the common name goosegrass.
Several species of Eleusine are useful, with Eleusine coracana in particular, also known as finger millet, being cultivated as a cereal grain in India and parts of Africa since the third millennium BCE. One species, Eleusine indica, is a widespread weed.
8 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Goose Grass
speciesEleusine indica
three-spiked goose grass
speciesEleusine tristachya
Finger Millet
speciesEleusine coracana
Fat-spiked yard-grass
speciesEleusine multiflora
Eleusine jaegeri
speciesEleusine jaegeri
Eleusine semisterilis
speciesEleusine semisterilis
Eleusine floccifolia
speciesEleusine floccifolia
Eleusine intermedia
speciesEleusine intermedia
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 72111.