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Revision as of 20:40, 5 February 2013
Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.
| Order | Poales |
|---|---|
| Family | Gramineae |
| Genus | Eleusine |
2n = 36
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
- 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)
- 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
-
spikes -
grains of a red cultivar
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
- Lost crops of Africa
- Mansfeld (Eleusine coracan)
- Plants for a future
- Prota4U