What is "eleusine"

Eleusine \Eleusine\ n. a genus of annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands.

Syn: genus Eleusine.

n. A tropical grass similar to millet, grown as a food crop and also used for weaving.

Eleusine is a genus of Asian, African, and South American plants in the grass family, sometimes called by the common name goosegrass. One species ( E. indica), is a widespread weed in many places. Another species E. coracana, is finger millet, cultivated as a cereal grain in India and parts of Africa.

1. Eleusine africana - Africa (from South Africa to Egypt + Senegal), Madagascar, Comoros, Sinai, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman
2. Eleusine coracana - tropical Africa; naturalized in parts of Asia (Arabia, India, China, Japan, Indonesia, etc.), Western Australia, Fiji, Micronesia, etc.
3. Eleusine floccifolia - Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Yemen
4. Eleusine indica - Asia, Africa, Papuasia; naturalized in Mediterranean, Australia, Americas, various islands
5. Eleusine intermedia - Kenya, Ethiopia
6. Eleusine jaegeri - Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda
7. Eleusine kigeziensis - Ethiopia, Uganda, Zaïre, Rwanda, Burundi
8. Eleusine multiflora - Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Eritrea, Yemen, Saudi Arabia; naturalized in South Africa, Mexico, Lesotho
9. Eleusine semisterilis - Kenya
10. Eleusine tristachya - Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile incl Juan Fernández Islands

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