Eleusine jaegeri

Description

Eleusine is a genus of Asian, African, and South American plants in the grass family,sometimes called by the common name goosegrass. One species (E. indica), is a widespread weed in many places. Another species E. coracana, is finger millet, cultivated as a cereal grain in India and parts of Africa. They are annual plants; with stems branching at the bottom, 15-70 cm tall, erect or patent, glabrous; hermaphrodite plants . Carinae pods, glabrous except for the long soft trichomes on the upper margins and throat; Ligule a lacerated membrane, 0.5-1 mm long; linear plates, 5-20 cm long and 2-5 mm wide, folded toward the base, flattened at the apex, glabrous on the underside with trichomesweak long, scattered on the beam. Terminal inflorescence, 1-6 spikes 1.5-16 cm long, in 1 whorl, or with 1 or 2 spikes 1-2 cm long below whorl, spine 0.7-1 mm wide, without wings; sessile spikelets, densely imbricated in 2 rows on lower side of flattened rachis, laterally compressed, carinate, without edges, with several bisexual florets, the most superior sterile; disarticulation above the glumes and between the florets; lower glume 1-nervia, upper glume 2.2-2.8 mm long, inconspicuously 5-nervia, shorter than florets; slogans 2-3 mm long, without ridge, 3-nerves or rarely with a pair of additional ribs near the margins, glabrous; palea slightly shorter than the motto; lodicles 2; stamens 3, anthers 0.2-0.5 mm long, purple; styles 2. Fruit autricle ; loose seed in a thin, strongly striated pericarp.