Poaceae Barnhart
Eleusine coracan (L.) Gaertn. , legitimate, scientific
Gaertner, J. (December 1788), De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum 1: 8, t. I, fig. 2 [comb. nov.]
basionym: Cynosurus coracanus L. legitimate
Holtze, M. (1892), Introduced plants in the Northern Territory. Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 15: 4 [secondary reference]
Ewart, A.J. (1907), Unrecorded introduced plants. The Victorian Naturalist 24(1): 15 [secondary reference]
Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 518 [secondary reference]
common name: Indian Millet [n/a]
Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 208 [secondary reference]
Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 69 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Eleusine tristachya (Lam.) Lam. legitimate
Phillips, S.M. (1972), A survey of the genus Eleusine Gaertn. (Gramineae) in Africa. Kew Bulletin 27(2): 254-256 [secondary reference]
  • Text: "Linnaeus used the specific epithet 'coracan' in Systemae Naturae Ed. 10 and some authors have adhered to this original spelling. However, the more usual form 'coracanus' is used here because Linnaeus abbreviated many epithets in Systema Naturae, and it seems likely that 'coracan' is one of these abbreviations since three years later in Species Plantarum Ed. 2 he spelt the epithet 'coracanus'."
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 33 [secondary reference]
Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Poaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 959 [secondary reference]
common name: Indian Millet [n/a]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 415 [secondary reference]
common name: Indian Millet [n/a]
Nightingale, M.E. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Eleusine. Flora of Australia 44B: 417-418, Fig. 74G-H [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Cynosurus coracanus L. legitimate common name: Finger Millet [n/a] common name: African Millet [n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Eleusine coracana Gaertn. orth. var. orthographic variant: Eleusine caracana A.D.Chapm. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Cynosurus coracan L. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Cynosurus coracanus L. legitimate
  • APC Dist.: WA (naturalised)
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]
misapplied to: Eleusine tristachya (Lam.) Lam. legitimate by Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 518