Taxon: Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Eleusine coracana subsp. africana (2 accessions)
• Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana (no accessions)

Common names:

• African finger millet   (Source: Grass SAfr ) – English   [Eleusine coracana subsp. africana]
  
• African millet   (Source: PROTABASE ) – English   [Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana]
  
• caracan millet   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English   [Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana]
  
• finger millet   (Source: Pl Book ) – English
  
• finger millet   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana]
  
• koracan   (Source: PROTABASE ) – English   [Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana]
  
• wild finger millet   (Source: Econ Bot 30:199.1976) – English   [Eleusine coracana subsp. africana]
  
• osgras   (Source: Grass SAfr ) – Afrikaans   [Eleusine coracana subsp. africana]
  
• can   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese   [Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana]
  
• coracan   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French   [Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana]
  
• eleusine   (Source: PROTABASE ) – French   [Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana]
  
• mil rouge   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French   [Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana]
  
• raggee   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French   [Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana]
  
• Fingerhirse   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German   [Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana]
  
• ragi   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – India   [Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana]
  
• capim-colonial   (Source: PROTABASE ) – Portuguese   [Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana]
  
• luco   (Source: PROTABASE ) – Portuguese   [Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana]
  
• nachenim   (Source: PROTABASE ) – Portuguese   [Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana]
  
• coracán   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana]
  
• dagussa   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana]
  
• mijo africano   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana]
  
• mwimbi   (Source: PROTABASE ) – Swahili   [Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana]
  
• ulezi   (Source: PROTABASE ) – Swahili   [Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana]
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Cameroon; Rwanda; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Ghana; Guinea; Nigeria
  South Tropical Africa: Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Lesotho; Namibia; South Africa; Swaziland
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Oman; Yemen

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Libya; Tunisia
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Rwanda; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Mali; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Namibia; South Africa
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Oman
  Western Asia: Afghanistan
  Caucasus: Armenia; Georgia
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan [w.]; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Indochina; Myanmar
  Malesia: Indonesia - Java, Sumatra; Malaysia; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Western Australia

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Ghazanfar, S. A. 1992. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of Oman. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2.
• Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000)
• Hilu, K. W. & J. M. J. de Wet. 1976. Domestication of Eleusine coracana. Econ. Bot. 30:199–208.
• Hilu, K. W. et al. 1979. Archaeobotanical studies of Eleusine coracana ssp. coracana (Finger millet). Amer. J. Bot. 66:330–333.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Koyama, T. 1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Lazarides, M. 1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia.
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. [mentions].
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun.
• de Wet, J. M. J. et al. 1984. Systematics and evolution of Eleusine coracana (Gramineae). Amer. J. Bot. 71:550–557.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Eleusine coracana.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Eleusine coracana.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Eleusine coracana.

Synonyms:

• Cynosurus coracanus L. [≡ Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana]
  
• Eleusine africana Kenn.-O’Byrne [≡ Eleusine coracana subsp. africana]
  
• Eleusine indica subsp. africana (Kenn.-O’Byrne) S. M. Phillips [≡ Eleusine coracana subsp. africana]
  
• "Eleusine tocussa Fresen., nom. nud." [= Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana]
  

Check other web resources for Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Inflorescence branch: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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