See other conspecific taxa:

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

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

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

• Basionym: Cynosurus coracanus L.
• (=) Eleusine tocussa Fresen., nom. nud.

Common names:

• African millet  (Source: PROTA4U) - English
• caracan millet  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• finger millet  (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
• koracan  (Source: PROTA4U) - English
• coracan  (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
• eleusine  (Source: PROTA4U) - French
• mil rouge  (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
• raggee  (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
• Fingerhirse  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• ragi  (Source: Dict Rehm) - India
• capim-colonial  (Source: PROTA4U) - Portuguese
• luco  (Source: PROTA4U) - Portuguese
• nachenim  (Source: PROTA4U) - Portuguese
• coracán  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• dagussa  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• mijo africano  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• mwimbi  (Source: PROTA4U) - Swahili
• ulezi  (Source: PROTA4U) - Swahili
• can  (Source: F ChinaEng) - Transcribed Chinese

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: fodder (in India) forage
• Human food: cereal
• Materials: fiber (for paper making)

Distributional Range:

Cultivated

Africa

• NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria, Libya, Tunisia
• NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan
• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
• WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda
• WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal
• SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, 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, Nepal, Sri Lanka
• INDO-CHINA: Indochina, Myanmar
• MALESIA: Indonesia, [Jawa, Sumatera] Malaysia, Philippines

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia [Western Australia]

References:

1. 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.
2. de Wet, J. M. J. et al. 1984. Systematics and evolution of Eleusine coracana (Gramineae). Amer. J. Bot. 71:551.
3. 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.
4. FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
5. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). URL: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Eleusine+coracana+subsp.+coracana&quantity=1 target='_blank'
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8. Hilu, K. W. et al. 1979. Archaeobotanical studies of Eleusine coracana ssp. coracana (Finger millet). Amer. J. Bot. 66:330-333.
9. Neves, S. S. 2011. Chapter 7. Eleusine. Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, millets and grasses 113-133.
10. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
11. Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
12. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
13. PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).

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=400471. Accessed 3 July 2024.