familyPoaceae
subfamilyPoaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
genusEleusine
speciesEleusine coracana
subspeciesEleusine coracana subsp. africana
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Common names: African finger millet
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Revision as of 21:04, 5 November 2020
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.