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Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.


Order	Poales
Family	Gramineae
Genus	Eleusine

2n =

Origin : Ethiopia

wild and cultivated


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

Popular names

English: finger millet, African millet, koracan
French: petit mil, coracan
German: Fingerhirse
Dutch, Afrikaans: vogel gierst

Swahili: wimbi, ulezi
Amharic: dagussa, tokuso

Nepalese: koddo
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)
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)

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

References

Links

GRIN
IPNI
[http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=2305&page=39 Lost crops of Africa|
Mansfeld (Eleusine coracan)
Plants for a future
Prota4U

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 == Popular names ==
-*English:
+*English: finger millet, African millet, koracan
-*French:
+*French: petit mil, coracan
+*German: Fingerhirse
+*Dutch, Afrikaans: vogel gierst
+*Swahili: wimbi, ulezi
+*Amharic: dagussa, tokuso
+*Nepalese: koddo
+*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)
+*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 ==
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 *[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]