Taxon:  Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn. subsp. coracana (Eleusine coracana Finger Millet Group)



Summary
Genus:
Eleusine
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Chloridoideae
Tribe:
Cynodonteae
Subtribe:
Eleusininae
Nomen number:
400471
Comment:
or Eleusine coracana Finger Millet Group
Verified:
11/29/2011 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
1569 (1439  active, 1428  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Cynosurus coracanus L.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Eleusine tocussa Fresen., nom. nud.

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Conservation Status

Reference(s)
  1. PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
  2. 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.
  3. de Wet, J. M. J. et al. 1984. Systematics and evolution of Eleusine coracana (Gramineae). Amer. J. Bot. 71:551.
  4. Dida, M. M. & K. M. Devos. 2006. Chapter 10. Finger millet. In: Kole. C., ed., Genome mapping and molecular breeding in plants (7 vols.) 1:333-343.
  5. FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
  6. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
  7. Grubben, G. J. H. & Soetjipto Partohardjono, eds. 1996. Cereals. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 10:90-95.
  8. Hilu, K. W. & J. M. J. de Wet. 1976. Domestication of Eleusine coracana. Econ. Bot. 30:199-208.
  9. Hilu, K. W. et al. 1979. Archaeobotanical studies of Eleusine coracana ssp. coracana (Finger millet). Amer. J. Bot. 66:330-333.
  10. Neves, S. S. 2011. Chapter 7. Eleusine. In: Kole, C., ed., Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, millets and grasses 113-133.
  11. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  12. Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
  13. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
EnglishAfrican millet  1PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
Englishcaracan millet  1Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: as Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana
Englishfinger millet  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Englishkoracan  1PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
Chinesecan穇 2Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Frenchcoracan  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: as Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana
Frencheleusine  2PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
Frenchmil rouge  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: as Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana
Frenchraggee  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: as Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana
GermanFingerhirse  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: as Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana
Indiaragi  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: as Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana
Portuguesecapim-colonial  2PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
Portugueseluco  2PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
Portuguesenachenim  2PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
Spanishcoracán  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: as Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana
Spanishdagussa  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: as Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana
Spanishmijo africano  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: as Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana
Swahilimwimbi  2PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
Swahiliulezi  2PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
Distribution

Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Animal foodfodderin IndiaPROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). Note: as Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana
Animal foodforage PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). Note: as Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://npgstest.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=400471. Accessed 15 April 2026.