Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Poaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Culms 1.5-6 dm. tall, tufted, erect, or decumbent at the base. Sheaths loose, overlapping and often short and crowded at the base of the culm, glabrous or sometimes sparingly villous; leaves 7.5-30 cm. long, 2-6 mm. wide, smooth or scabrous; spikes 2-10, 2.5-7.5 cm. long, whorled or approximate at the summit of the culm or one or two sometimes distant; spikelets 3-6-flowered, 3-4 mm. long; scales acute, minutely scabrous on the keel, the first 1-nerved, the second 3-7-nerved, the others 3-5-nerved.
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Distribution
Waste places, Abaco, New Providence, Eleuthera, Fortune Island, Grand Turk, Rum Cay. and Inagua : Bermuda ; common as a weed in all warm temperate and tropical regions. Wike-grass.
Bermuda South America| Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Grand Turk Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America|