Eleusine Gaertn.

Native to:

Aldabra, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, Chad, Chile Central, Chile South, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Comoros, Congo, East Aegean Is., East Himalaya, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Juan Fernández Is., Kazan-retto, Kenya, Korea, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maldives, Mali, Maluku, Manchuria, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Niger, Nigeria, North Caucasus, Northern Provinces, Ogasawara-shoto, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Paraguay, Philippines, Rodrigues, Rwanda, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Sinai, Socotra, Solomon Is., Somalia, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Uganda, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Afghanistan, Alabama, Algeria, Andaman Is., Arizona, Arkansas, Aruba, Ascension, Austria, Azores, Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil North, Brazil West-Central, Bulgaria, California, Canary Is., Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Central American Pac, Chagos Archipelago, Chile North, Christmas I., Cocos (Keeling) Is., Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Cook Is., Corse, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, Easter Is., Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Florida, France, French Guiana, Galápagos, Georgia, Germany, Gilbert Is., Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Gulf States, Guyana, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Hungary, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Italy, Jamaica, Kansas, Kentucky, Kermadec Is., Kriti, Leeward Is., Libya, Line Is., Louisiana, Madeira, Maine, Marcus I., Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Maryland, Massachusetts, Mauritania, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Morocco, Nauru, Nebraska, Netherlands Antilles, Nevada, New Caledonia, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Niue, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Territory, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Panamá, Pennsylvania, Peru, Phoenix Is., Pitcairn Is., Portugal, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Québec, Rhode I., Samoa, Sardegna, Society Is., South Australia, South Carolina, South Dakota, Southwest Caribbean, Spain, St.Helena, Suriname, Switzerland, Tasmania, Tennessee, Texas, Tokelau-Manihiki, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Tunisia, Turks-Caicos Is., Tuvalu, Utah, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vermont, Victoria, Virginia, Wake I., Wallis-Futuna Is., West Virginia, Western Australia, Windward Is., Wisconsin, Yugoslavia

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Govaerts, R.H.A. (2011). World checklist of selected plant families published update Facilitated by the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• Fruct. 1: 7, t. 1 (1789).

Flora Zambesiaca

• Fruct. Sem. Pl. 1: 7 (1788).
• S.M. Phillips in Kew Bull. 27: 251–270 (1972).

Flora of Somalia

• Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by T. A. Cope [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• Fruct. & Sem. 1: 7 (1788)