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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Eleusine

Hierarchical position of the Genus Eleusine

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Liliopsida Brongn. pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xv, 17. 12 Aug 1843. common name: Monocots       Subclassis  Commelinidae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 171. Jan-Mar 1967. common name: Grasses, Sedges, Rushes       SuperOrdo  Juncanae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 510. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Poales Small pub. Fl. S.E. U.S.: 48. 1903.       Familia  Poaceae (R. Br.) Barnh. pub. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 22: 7. 15 Jan 1895, nom. cons. common name: Gramineae       Subtribus  Eleusininae Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 63. 1829.    Genus  Eleusine Gaertn. pub. (1788) common name: goosegrass

Named members of the Genus Eleusine

1	Species  africana Kennedy & O'Byrne syn. Eleusine coracana ssp. africana
2	Species  coracana (L.) Gaertn.
	3    Subspecies  africana (Kennedy & O'Byrne) Hilu & de Wet common name: African finger millet
4	Species  indica (L.) Gaertn.
	5    Subspecies  africana (Kennedy & O'Byrne) S.M. Phillips syn. Eleusine coracana ssp. africana
6	Species  racemosa Roemer & J.A. Schultes syn. Acrachne racemosa
7	Species  radulans R. Br. syn. Dactyloctenium radulans
8	Species  tristachya (Lam.) Lam. common name: threespike goosegrass

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.