See other conspecific taxa:

• Eleusine coracana (0 accessions)
• Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana (0 accessions)

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

(≡ homotypic synonym, = heterotypic synonym, - autonym, I invalid designation)

• Basionym: Eleusine africana Kenn.-O’Byrne
• (≡) Eleusine indica subsp. africana (Kenn.-O’Byrne) S. M. Phillips

Common names:

• African finger millet  (Source: Grass SAfr) - English
• wild finger millet  (Source: Econ Bot) - English
• osgras  (Source: Grass SAfr) - Afrikaans

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan
• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
• WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda
• WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria
• SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa

Asia-Temperate

• ARABIAN PENINSULA: Oman, Yemen

References:

1. Bisht, M. S. & Y. Mukai. 2001. Genomic in situ hybridization identifies genome donor of finger millet (Eleusine coracana). Theor. Appl. Genet. 102:825-832. Note: as Eleusine africana, the wild progenitor of finger millet
2. Chennaveeraiah, M. S. & S. C. Hiremath. 1974. Genome analysis of Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.. Euphytica 23:489-495. Note: Netherlands journal of plant breeding
3. de Wet, J. M. J. et al. 1984. Systematics and evolution of Eleusine coracana (Gramineae). Amer. J. Bot. 71:552. Note: combination unknowingly validated here
4. Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca. Note: = Eleusine africana Kenn.-O'Byrne
5. FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
6. Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14
7. Ghazanfar, S. A. 1992. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of Oman. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2 Note: treats as Eleusine indica subsp. africana (Kenn.-O'Byrne) S. M. Phillips
8. Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58
9. Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989-. Flora of Ethiopia Note: = Eleusine africana Kenn.-O'Byrne
10. Hilu, K. W. & J. M. J. de Wet. 1976. Domestication of Eleusine coracana. Econ. Bot. 30:199.
11. Hilu, K. W. et al. 1979. Archaeobotanical studies of Eleusine coracana ssp. coracana (Finger millet). Amer. J. Bot. 66:330-333. Note: mentions but no validation of name
12. Liu, Q. et al. 2011. Allotetraploid origin and divergence in Eleusine (Chloridoideae, Poaceae): evidence from low-copy nuclear gene phylogenies and a plastid gene chronogram. Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 108:1287-1298. Note: = Eleusine africana
13. Neves, S. S. et al. 2005. Phylogeny of Eleusine (Poaceae: Chloridoideae) based on nuclear ITS and plastid trnT – trnF sequences. Molec. Phylogenet. Evol. 35:395-419.
14. Peterson, P. M. et al. 2015. A molecular phylogeny and classification of the Eleusininae with a new genus, Micrachne (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Cynodonteae). Taxon 64:445-467.
15. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
16. Wood, J. R. I. 1997. A handbook of the Yemen flora. Note: treats as Eleusine indica subsp. africana (Kenn.-O'Byrne) S. M. Phillips
17. PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). Note: = Eleusine africana Kenn.-O'Byrne

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=400470. Accessed 3 July 2024.