Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon

Bayer Code : elein

Scientific name: Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertner

Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Gramineae, Monocotyledonous

Common name: yard-grass

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Indische Eleusine ; ES : ; FR : éleusine indienne ; IT : gramigna indiana ; PT : pé-de-galo ; EN : yard-grass ;

Biological type: Annual

Seed:

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Seedling:

- Shoot folded, leaf sheath flattened.

- Leaf blade 10 times longer than wide, leaf more or less hairy.

- Ligule membranous toothed, auricles absent, basal tufts of hairs on each side.

Adult plant:

- Height: 10-50cm. Plant tufted, glabrescent, Fibrous root.

- Stems erect, flattened.

- Leaves flat, shortly acute at the apex

- Inflorescence : 2-7 sail-like spikes terminal or not; spikelets closed on their rhachis, inequal glumes, subequal floral-glumes.

- Fruits : caryopsis glabrous, transversely wrinkled.

- rare in crops. Populations exist which are resistant to trifluralin in U.S.A. - Biological type: Annual.

Ecological profile (click on flags):   Rare       Rare       Present       Rare    

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