Taxon: Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.

See also subordinate taxa:

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

Common names:

• finger millet   (Source: Pl Book )
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

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

Distributional range:

Native:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Cameroon; Rwanda; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Nigeria
  South Tropical Africa: Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Lesotho; Namibia; South Africa; Swaziland
  Africa [warm regions]
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Yemen
• ALSO
  Asia [warm regions]

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58. (Grass SAfr)
• 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.
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. (Pl Book)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia. (F Somalia)
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr) [mentions].
• Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun. (Grass Camer)
• 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. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

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 databases for Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.:

• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Inflorescence: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: 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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