Species

Eleusine indica

Common Name(s)

crowfoot grass

Authority

Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.

Family

Poaceae

Flora Category

Vascular - Exotic

NVS Species Code

ELEIND

The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94,000 vegetation survey plots - including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS maintains a standard set of species code abbreviations that correspond to standard scientific plant names from the Ngä Tipu o Aotearoa - New Zealand Plants database.

Structural Class

Grasses

Similar Taxa

Roots fibrous, stems smooth, sometimes upright but usually nearly prostrate 15 to 60 cm long, sometimes slightly roughened. Inflorescence finger-like, similar to crabgrass, with 2 to 10 segments 2.5 to 7.5 cm long. Spoikelets 3 to 6 seeded along the edges of the rachis. (Wax, Fawcett and Isley 1981)

Year Naturalised

1855

Origin

widespread

Seed
Seeds very small, reddish brown, rough, ridged. (Wax, Fawcett and Isley 1981)

This page last updated on 25 Mar 2010