familyPoaceae
subfamilyPoaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
genusEleusine
speciesEleusine coracana
subspeciesEleusine coracana subsp. africana
Eleusine coracana subsp. africana
Common names: African finger millet
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 25. Treatment on page 110.
Culms 21-62 cm. Blades 22-50 cm long, 6-10 mm wide. Branches slim, 4-17 cm long, 5-7 mm wide. Spikelets 5-8 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, with 2-6 florets, disarticulating at maturity. Seeds oblong, surfaces shallowly ridged, uniformly granular.
Discussion
This weedy subspecies hybridizes freely with the cultivated subsp. coracana. It tends to have more slender branches than subsp. coracana (5-7 mm wide rather than 7-15 mm), which led to its previous inclusion in E. indica.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
"decumbent" is not a number.
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absent +
common +
absent +
bulliform +
absent +
membranous +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (?) +
mucronate +
kranz +
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arising +
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close +
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thick +
not pseudopetiolate +
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adaxial +
cluster +
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spreading +
1;4;20 +
spikelike +
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modified +
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African finger millet +
branching +
annual +
climbing +
floating +
herbaceous +
glabrous +
not woody +
reduced +
absent +
not waisted +
large +
hard +
capillary +
adjacent +
shorter +
sometimes longer +
bisexual +
reduced +
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punctate +
pistillate +
distinct +
axillary +
elongate +
winged +
not absent +
distichous +
3-veined +
glabrous +
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Introduced +
disarticulating +
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distal +
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sterile +
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Eleusine coracana subsp. africana +
Eleusine coracana +
subspecies +
dioecious +
hyaline +
membranous +
3-5(7)-veined +
absent +
annual +
varied +