Eleusine
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Through Asia, Africa and South America
- Species
- Eleusine africana – Africa (from South Africa to Egypt + Senegal), Madagascar, Comoros, Sinai, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman
- Eleusine coracana – tropical Africa; naturalized in parts of Asia (Arabia, India, China, Japan, Indonesia, etc.), Western Australia, Fiji, Micronesia, etc.
- Eleusine floccifolia – Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Yemen
- Eleusine indica – Asia, Africa, Papuasia; naturalized in Mediterranean, Australia, Americas, various islands
- Eleusine intermedia – Kenya, Ethiopia
- Eleusine jaegeri – Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda
- Eleusine kigeziensis – Ethiopia, Uganda, Zaïre, Rwanda, Burundi
- Eleusine multiflora – Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Eritrea, Yemen, Saudi Arabia; naturalized in South Africa, Mexico, Lesotho
- Eleusine semisterilis – Kenya
- Eleusine tristachya – Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile incl Juan Fernández Islands
- formerly included
numerous species once included in Eleusine but now considered better suited to other genera: Acrachne Aeluropus Chloris Coelachyrum Dactyloctenium Dinebra Disakisperma Eragrostis Harpochloa Leptochloa Ochthochloa Sclerodactylon Uniola Wangenheimia
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