Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn. - Indian goosegrass
MG030 : Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.
| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 591 |
| Synonym | : | Cynosurus indicus Linn.
Eleusine japonica; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Indian Crowfoot Grass, Indian goosegrass, Wiregrass, Crowfootgrass, Malankuri, Balraja, Mandla, Jharnpriya kodu, Bilwagaja, Ganjalada hoo, Hecchulli hullu, Rannachani, Khurd, Khurd-mendi, Nandimukhi, Thippa ragi, Kevuru, Karuchodi, Kuror |
| Plant Family | : | Poaceae / Gramineae |
| Description | : | Tufted annual; culms 15-85 cm high, erect or geniculately ascending. Leaf-blades usually folded, 5-35 cm long, 2.5-6 mm wide. Inflorescence digitate, composed of 1-10(17) slender ascending spikes 3.5-15 cm long, a few spikes often set below the main apical cluster. Spikelets 3-9-flowered, elliptic, 4.6-7.8 mm long; lower glume 1.1-3.2(3.9) mm long. upper glume 1.8-4.7 mm long; lemmas lanceolate, 2.4-4.8 mm long, acute to subacute.
Fl. & Fr. Per.: June-August. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | sudorific and febrifuge, roots used in the prevention of abortion (abortifacient). Root, is used in traditional medicine as
a diuretic, anti-helminthic, diaphoretic and febrifuge and for treating cough and other ailments.
The seed is sometimes used as
famine food and also used in the treatment of liver complaints. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: C-glycosylflavone ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (1): Flavone; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve |
| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons |
| Subclass | : Commelinidae |
| Order | : Cyperales |
| Family | : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family |
| Genus | : Eleusine Gaertn. - goosegrass |
| Species | : Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn. - Indian goosegrass |