Taxon: Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn. subsp. coracana (Eleusine coracana Finger Millet Group)

Summary

Genus:

Eleusine

Family:

Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Chloridoideae

Tribe:

Cynodonteae

Subtribe:

Eleusininae

Nomen number:

400471

Comment:

[or E. coracana Finger Millet Group]

Verified:

11/29/2011 ARS Systematic Botanists.

Accessions:

0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System.

Other conspecific taxa

Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn. (1 active accession[s])
Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn. subsp. africana (Kenn.-O’Byrne) Hilu & de Wet (0 active accession[s])

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Basionym
Cynosurus coracanus L.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Eleusine tocussa Fresen., nom. nud.

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Reference(s)

PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
Agrawal, R. et al. 2012. Chloroplast genes as genetic markers for inferring patterns of change, maternal ancestry and phylogenetic relationships among Eleusine species. AoB Pl. 6: plt056.
de Wet, J. M. J. et al. 1984. Systematics and evolution of Eleusine coracana (Gramineae). Amer. J. Bot. 71:551.
Dida, M. M. & K. M. Devos. 2006. Chapter 10. Finger millet. Genome mapping and molecular breeding in plants (7 vols.) Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. 1:333-343.
FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
Grubben, G. J. H. & Soetjipto Partohardjono, eds. 1996. Cereals. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 10:90-95.
Hilu, K. W. & J. M. J. de Wet. 1976. Domestication of Eleusine coracana. Econ. Bot. 30:199-208.
Hilu, K. W. et al. 1979. Archaeobotanical studies of Eleusine coracana ssp. coracana (Finger millet). Amer. J. Bot. 66:330-333.
Neves, S. S. 2011. Chapter 7. Eleusine. Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, millets and grasses 113-133.
Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).

Common names

LANGUAGE	NAME	ALTERNATE NAME	SEQ	CITATION
English	African millet		1	PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
English	caracan millet		1	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
English	finger millet		1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English	koracan		1	PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
French	coracan		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
French	eleusine		2	PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
French	mil rouge		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
French	raggee		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	Fingerhirse		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Chinese	can	穇	2	Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
India	ragi		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Portuguese	capim-colonial		2	PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
Portuguese	luco		2	PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
Portuguese	nachenim		2	PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
Spanish	coracán		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	dagussa		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	mijo africano		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swahili	mwimbi		2	PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
Swahili	ulezi		2	PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).

Distribution

order_code	Status	Continent	Subcontinent	Country	State	Note
2	Cultivated	Africa	East Tropical Africa	Kenya
2	Cultivated	Africa	East Tropical Africa	Tanzania
2	Cultivated	Africa	East Tropical Africa	Uganda
2	Cultivated	Africa	Northeast Tropical Africa	Eritrea
2	Cultivated	Africa	Northeast Tropical Africa	Ethiopia
2	Cultivated	Africa	Northeast Tropical Africa	Chad
2	Cultivated	Africa	Northeast Tropical Africa	Somalia
2	Cultivated	Africa	Northeast Tropical Africa	Sudan
2	Cultivated	Africa	Northern Africa	Algeria
2	Cultivated	Africa	Northern Africa	Libya
2	Cultivated	Africa	Northern Africa	Tunisia
2	Cultivated	Africa	South Tropical Africa	Angola
2	Cultivated	Africa	South Tropical Africa	Malawi
2	Cultivated	Africa	South Tropical Africa	Mozambique
2	Cultivated	Africa	South Tropical Africa	Zambia
2	Cultivated	Africa	South Tropical Africa	Zimbabwe
2	Cultivated	Africa	Southern Africa	Botswana
2	Cultivated	Africa	Southern Africa	Namibia
2	Cultivated	Africa	Southern Africa	South Africa
2	Cultivated	Africa	West Tropical Africa	Mali
2	Cultivated	Africa	West Tropical Africa	Niger
2	Cultivated	Africa	West Tropical Africa	Nigeria
2	Cultivated	Africa	West Tropical Africa	Senegal
2	Cultivated	Africa	West-Central Tropical Africa	Burundi
2	Cultivated	Africa	West-Central Tropical Africa	Cameroon
2	Cultivated	Africa	West-Central Tropical Africa	Central African Republic
2	Cultivated	Africa	West-Central Tropical Africa	Rwanda
2	Cultivated	Africa	West-Central Tropical Africa	Zaire
2	Cultivated	Africa	Western Indian Ocean	Madagascar
2	Cultivated	Asia-Temperate	Arabian Peninsula	Oman
2	Cultivated	Asia-Temperate	Caucasus	Armenia
2	Cultivated	Asia-Temperate	Caucasus	Georgia
2	Cultivated	Asia-Temperate	Eastern Asia	Japan		w.
2	Cultivated	Asia-Temperate	Eastern Asia	Taiwan
2	Cultivated	Asia-Temperate	China	China
2	Cultivated	Asia-Temperate	Western Asia	Afghanistan
2	Cultivated	Asia-Tropical	Indian Subcontinent	India
2	Cultivated	Asia-Tropical	Indian Subcontinent	Nepal
2	Cultivated	Asia-Tropical	Indian Subcontinent	Sri Lanka
2	Cultivated	Asia-Tropical	Indo-China	Indochina
2	Cultivated	Asia-Tropical	Indo-China	Myanmar
2	Cultivated	Asia-Tropical	Malesia	Indonesia	Java
2	Cultivated	Asia-Tropical	Malesia	Indonesia	Sumatra
2	Cultivated	Asia-Tropical	Malesia	Malaysia
2	Cultivated	Asia-Tropical	Malesia	Philippines
2	Cultivated	Australasia	Australia	Australia	Western Australia

Cultivated
Africa

NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria, Libya, Tunisia
NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Chad
EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Burundi, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Rwanda, Zaire
WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal
SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Namibia, South Africa
WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Madagascar

Asia-Temperate

ARABIAN PENINSULA: Oman
WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan
CAUCASUS: Armenia, Georgia
CHINA: China
EASTERN ASIA: Japan (w.), Taiwan

Asia-Tropical

INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Sri Lanka, Nepal
INDO-CHINA: Indochina, Myanmar
MALESIA: Indonesia [Java, Sumatra], Malaysia, Philippines

Australasia

AUSTRALIA: Australia [Western Australia]

Economic Uses

Usage	Type	Note	Reference
Animal food	fodder	in India	PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
Animal food	forage		PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
Human food	beverage base		Hilu, K. W. & J. M. J. de Wet. 1976. Domestication of Eleusine coracana. Econ. Bot. 30:199-208.
Human food	cereal		Hilu, K. W. & J. M. J. de Wet. 1976. Domestication of Eleusine coracana. Econ. Bot. 30:199-208.
Materials	fiber	for paper making	Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://grin.devlab.cz/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=400471. Accessed 1 December 2024.