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Eleusine

Eleusine is a genus of Asian, African, and South American plants in the grass family, sometimes called by the common name goosegrass. 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. 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

[ "Agronomy", "Botany", "Horticulture", "Ancient history", "finger millet", "Eleusine multiflora", "Panicum sumatrense", "Tristachya", "Eleusine tristachya" ]
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