Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Liliopsida > Poales > Poaceae > Eleusine > E. indica (L.) Gaertn.

Description: Annuals. Culms tufted, 10-50 cm high; nodes glabrous. Leaves 5-25 x 0.4-0.6 cm, linear-lancoleate or linear, base rounded, blunt at apex, often folded; sheaths keeled, softly pilose; ligule truncate, membranous. Spikes digitate or subdigitate,2-18, each 3-8 cm long. Spikelets 4-6 mm long, ovate or oblong, 3-6-flowered. Lower glume 1.5-2.5 x 0.5-1 mm, lanceolate, keeled, chartaceous, 3-nerved. Upper glume 2-3 x 1 mm, oblong, keeled, chartaceous, 5-nerved. Lemmas 2-3 x 1.5-2 mm, ovate-oblong, chartaceous, 3-nerved, sub acute. Paleas 2-2.5 x 1 mm, oblong-elliptic, 2-keeled, 2-nerved. Stamens 3; anthers c.0.5 mm long. Ovary c. 0.5 mm long, elliptic; stigmas c. 0.5 mm long, violet. Caryopsis subglobose, deeply grooved on one side, transversely rugose.

Flowering and Fruiting: Throughout the year

Uses: Ayurveda, Siddha, Traditional Chinese medicine.

Cultivation:

References

http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org

https://indiabiodiversity.org