Eleusine
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Eleusine

African finger millet
threespike goosegrass

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.

 

Last reviewed October 31, 2004   

 

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