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Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.


Order	Poales
Family	Poaceae
Genus	Eleusine

2n = 36

Origin : Ethiopia

wild and cultivated


English	{{{english}}}
French	{{{french}}}

Description

spikes
grains of a red cultivar

Popular names

English: finger millet, African millet, koracan
French: petit mil, coracan
German: Fingerhirse
Dutch, Afrikaans: vogel gierst
Portuguese: luco, capim colonial, nachenim
Swahili:
- wimbi, ulezi (Lost crops of Africa)
- mwimbi, ulezi (PROTA)
Amharic: dagussa, tokuso (Lost crops of Africa)

Nepalese: koddo (Lost crops of Africa)
Hindi: mandua, mandal (Wealth of India)
Bengali: marua (Wealth of India)
Marathi: nagli, nachoni (Wealth of India)
Gujerati: bavto, nagli (Wealth of India)
Telugu:
- ragulu (Wealth of India)
- rāgi (DEDR)
Tamil:
- ragi, kelvaregu (Wealth of India)
- irāki, iṟuṅku (DEDR)
- கேழ்வரகு - "keezhvaragu", /ke:ɻvaragə/, /ke:lvaragə/ in towns.
Kannada:
- ragi (Wealth of India)
- rāgi (DEDR)
Malayalam:
- muttari (Wealth of India)
- rāgi, ṟayi (DEDR)

Koḍagu: eri (DEDR)
Iruḷa: ra•yi (DEDR)
Toda: erxy (DEDR)
Tulu: rāgi (DEDR)

Classification

Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn. (1788)

Basionym:

Cynosurus coracan L. (1759)

Synonyms:

Cynosurus coracanus L. (1762)
Eleusine cerealis Salisb. (1796)

Linnaeus used coracan in 1759 and corrected the epithet to coracanus in 1762. It is still uncertain whether the original spelling has to be maintained or corrected.

Cultivars

History

see Candolle's and Sturtevant's articles.

Uses

cereal : grain used entire or ground for porridge.
beverage: grain malted and made into a beer.
forage : the plant gives a good hay.
straw : used for thatching and plaiting.

References

Links

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 {{Species page (seed plant)
-|image = Image_needed_LHB.png
+|image = Finger millet 3 11-21-02.jpg
 |legend =
-|author =
+|author = (L.) Gaertn.
-|order =
+|order = Poales
-|family =
+|family = Poaceae
-|genus =
+|genus = Eleusine
-|nb chromosomes = 2n =
+|nb chromosomes = 2n = 36
-|origin = area of origin
+|origin = Ethiopia
-|status = wild or cultivated
+|status = wild and cultivated
 }}
+== Description ==
+<gallery mode="packed">
+File:EleusineCoracana1.jpg|spikes
+File:A Scene of Ragi.JPG|grains of a red cultivar
+</gallery>
 == Popular names ==
-*English:
+{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
-*French:
+*English: finger millet, African millet, koracan
+*French: petit mil, coracan
+*German: Fingerhirse
+*Dutch, Afrikaans: vogel gierst
+*Portuguese: luco, capim colonial, nachenim
+*Swahili:
+**wimbi, ulezi (Lost crops of Africa)
+**mwimbi, ulezi (PROTA)
+*Amharic: dagussa, tokuso (Lost crops of Africa)
+*Nepalese: koddo (Lost crops of Africa)
+*Hindi: mandua, mandal (Wealth of India)
+*Bengali: marua (Wealth of India)
+*Marathi: nagli, nachoni (Wealth of India)
+*Gujerati: bavto, nagli (Wealth of India)
+*Telugu:
+**ragulu (Wealth of India)
+**rāgi (DEDR)
+*Tamil:
+**ragi, kelvaregu (Wealth of India)
+**irāki, iṟuṅku (DEDR)
+**கேழ்வரகு - "keezhvaragu", /ke:ɻvaragə/, /ke:lvaragə/ in towns.
+*Kannada:
+**ragi (Wealth of India)
+**rāgi (DEDR)
+*Malayalam:
+**muttari (Wealth of India)
+**rāgi, ṟayi (DEDR)
+*Koḍagu: eri (DEDR)
+*Iruḷa: ra•yi (DEDR)
+*Toda: erxy (DEDR)
+*Tulu: rāgi (DEDR)
-== Biology ==
+|}
 == Classification ==
 ''Eleusine coracana'' (L.) Gaertn. (1788)
@@ Line 32: / Line 73: @@
 == History ==
-see [[:fr:Coracan (Candolle, 1882)|Candolle]]'s article.
+see [[:fr:Coracan (Candolle, 1882)|Candolle]]'s and [[Elaeagnus-Elymus (Sturtevant, 1919)#Eleusine coracana Gaertn.|Sturtevant]]'s articles.
 == Uses ==
+*cereal : grain used entire or ground for porridge.
+*beverage: grain malted and made into a beer.
+*forage : the plant gives a good hay.
+*straw : used for thatching and plaiting.
 == References ==
@@ Line 41: / Line 86: @@
 *[http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/tax_search.pl?Eleusine%20coracana GRIN]
 *[http://www.ipni.org/ipni/simplePlantNameSearch.do?find_wholeName=Eleusine+coracana&amp;output_format=normal&amp;query_type=by_query&amp;back_page=query_ipni.html IPNI]
+*[http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=2305&page=39 Lost crops of Africa]
 *[http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:46:1030550000563101::NO::module,mf_use,source,akzanz,rehm,akzname,taxid:mf,,botnam,0,,Eleusine%20coracan,34458 Mansfeld] (''Eleusine coracan'')
+*[http://pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Eleusine+coracana Plants for a future]
+*[[Eleusine coracana (PROSEA)|PROSEA on Pl@ntUse]]
+*[[Eleusine coracana (PROTA)|PROTA on Pl@ntUse]]
 *[http://www.prota4u.org/protav8.asp?h=M4&t=Eleusine,coracana&p=Eleusine+coracana Prota4U]
-[[Category:Species]]
-[[Category:Seed plant]]
 [[Category:Cereal, cultivated]]
+[[Category:Beverage]]
+[[Category:Fibre]]
+[[Category:Forage, cultivated]]