Elesina

	Elesina
	; Indian Eleusine ( Eleusine indica ), Midway
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryotes
Kingdom:	Plants
The kingdom :	Green plants
Department:	Flower
Class:	Monocotyledonous
Over Order :	Lilianae
Order:	Herb color
Family:	Cereals
Subfamily :	Chloris
Tribe :	Swinefish
Rod:	Elesina
International Scientific Name
	Eleusine Gaertn. (1788)
Typical view
	Eleusine coracana ( L. ) Gaertn.

Eleusine , or Elevzine , or Eleusine ( lat. Eleusine ) is a genus of herbaceous plants of the family of cereals, or bluegrass ( Poaceae ).

The name of the genus comes from the name of the Greek city of Eleusis ^[2] ^[3] .

Botanical description

Annual herbaceous plants, 10-50 (100) cm tall. Leaves linear, 1-5 (10) mm wide. Spikelet many-flowered, sitting on one side of a flat axis in two rows, forming thick ears , drawn together at the top of the stem. The fruit is a loose, rounded seed , 1.4-2 mm long.

Taxonomy

The genus Eleusina includes 10 species ^[4] :

Eleusine africana Kenn.-O'Byrne
Eleusine coracana ( L. ) Gaertn. - Eleusina Coracan , or Dagussa
Eleusine floccifolia Spreng.
Eleusine indica ( L. ) Gaertn. - Indian Eleusina
Eleusine intermedia ( Chiov. ) SMPhillips
Eleusine jaegeri Pilg.
Eleusine kigeziensis SMPhillips
Eleusine multiflora hochst. ex A. Rich.
Eleusine semisterilis SMPhillips
Eleusine tristachya ( Lam. ) Lam. - Eleusina is three-legged

Notes

↑ On the conditionality of specifying the class of monocotyledons as a higher taxon for the group of plants described in this article, see the “APG Systems” section of the article “Monocotyledons” .
↑ Rozhevits, 1934 , p. 291.
↑ Tsvelev, 1976 , p. 636-637.
↑ List of species of the genus Eleusis on The Plant List (Eng.) (Checked April 19, 2013)

Literature

Rozhevits, R. Yu. Genus 141. Eleusine - Eleusine Gaertn. // Flora of the USSR : in 30 t. / Ch. ed. V.L. Komarov . - L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1934. - T. 2 / ed. Toma R. Yu. Rozhevits , B. K. Shishkin . - p. 291. - 778, XXXIII p. - 5175 copies
Tsvelev N.N. Genus 142. Eleusina - Eleusine Gaertn. // Cereals of the USSR / otv. ed. An. A. Fedorov . - L .: Science , 1976. - P. 636-637. - 788 s. - 2900 copies

Links

Eleusine // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extras). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
Eleusina : information about the taxon in the Planterium project (a determinant of plants and an illustrated atlas of species) (Checked April 19, 2013)

[1] On the conditionality of specifying the class of monocotyledons as a higher taxon for the group of plants described in this article, see the “APG Systems” section of the article “Monocotyledons” .

[_4e768e64a0ac5878-2] Rozhevits, 1934 , p. 291.

[_9bf079ca2a787271-3] Tsvelev, 1976 , p. 636-637.

[4] List of species of the genus Eleusis on The Plant List (Eng.) (Checked April 19, 2013)