Taxon: Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.
Genus: Eleusine
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Chloridoideae tribe: Eragrostideae.
Nomen number: 14997
Place of publication: Fruct. sem. pl. 1:8. 1788
Name verified on: 07-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 31-Oct-2001
Species priority site is: Southern Regional PI Station (S9). Accessions:
8 in National Plant Germplasm System.
SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS
WEED
- A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious
weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links
to state information or web documents:
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PR*.
| ªAquatic.
| *Terrestrial.
| °In seed.
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- Link to noxious weed information from

- capim-da-cidade (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
- capim-de-burro (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
- capim-pé-de-galinha (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
- crabgrass (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.)
- crowfoot grass (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.)
- eleusine d'Iindes (Source: F NAmer
)
- eleusine des Indes (Source: F NAmer
)
- goose grass (Source: World Econ Pl
)
- grama de caballo (Source: Dict Rehm
)
- grama-de-coradouro (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
- grama-sapo (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
- pied de poule (Source: Dict Rehm
)
- wire grass (Source: Atlas WWeed
)
- yard grass (Source: Dict Rehm
)
- More:
- More:
- throughout tropics & subtropics, origin paleotropics
- Bor, N. L.
1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. (Grass BCIP)
- Dyer, R. A. et al., eds.
1963–. Flora of southern Africa. (F SAfr)
- 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)
[= E. indica subsp. indica].
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
- Hilu, K. W. & J. M. J. de Wet.
1976. Domestication of Eleusine coracana.
Econ. Bot.
30:199–208.
- Holm, L. et al.
1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
- Malezasdemexico.
Malezas de México - on-line resource. (Malezas Mex)
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
- Turrill, W. B. et al., eds.
1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
- Veldkamp, J. F.
1997. pers. comm. [re. common names].
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other databases for Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.:
- World Grass Species-Descriptions:
Morphological species description from Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew
- 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:
- 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.
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Cite as: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?14997 (22 November 2009)
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