- Family : POACEAE
(Grass Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Poaceae
- Synonym(s) : Cynodon indicus (L.) Raspail; Cynosurus indicus L.; Eleusine distans Moench; Juncus loureiroana Schult. & Schult.f.; Chloris repens Steud.; Cynosurus ara Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.; Cynosurus pectinatus Lam.; Eleusine distachya Trin. ex Steud.; Eleusine distans Link; Eleusine domingensis Sieber ex Schult.; Eleusine glabra Schumach.; Eleusine gonantha Schrank; Eleusine gouinii E.Fourn.; Eleusine inaequalis E.Fourn.; Eleusine indica var. major E.Fourn.; Eleusine indica var. monostachya F.M.Bailey; Eleusine indica var. monostachys Bailey; Eleusine indica var. oligostachya Honda; Eleusine indica var. sandaensis Vanderyst; Eleusine japonica Steud.; Eleusine macrosperma Stokes; Eleusine marginata Lindl.; Eleusine pectinata (Lam.) Lam.; Eleusine polydactyla Steud.; Eleusine rigidifolia E.Fourn.; Eleusine scabra E.Fourn.; Eleusine textilis Welw.; Leptochloa pectinata (Lam.) Kunth; Paspalum dissectum Kniph.; Poa spicata Willd. ex Steud.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.
- Common name : Crab Grass, Fowl-foot grass, Goosegrass
- Vernacular name :
- Madhulika (Sanskrit)
- Mahar-nachni (Marathi)
- Kattuthina, raahi (Malayalam)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : In Plains in the open areas, roadsides and wastelands
- Comments / notes : On hills and slopes; common weed
- Flower, Fruit : June-February
- Collector(s) Name : K.Sankara Rao, Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh; Cecil J. Saldanha; Cecil J. Saldanha, P.Prakash
- Collection Date : 26-10-2014, 10-10-1961, 28-10-1978
- Collection Nos : HJCB 0133, CS 7464, KFP 3726
- Collection Locality : Bakrapet, Chittoor district; Labbidi ghat, Wayanad; Near Londa, Belgaum district
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Common
- Karnataka : Common
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
- Odisha : Common
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng, Lohit, Siang, Subansiri, Tirap
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Delhi : Delhi
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Lakshadweep : Lakshadweep
- Native : Aldabra, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, Chad, China, Comoros, Congo, East Aegean Islands, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabo
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Tropics and sub-tropics
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4
- R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1.
- B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons
- Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 288
- Read more :
- Permalink : http://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Eleusine indica
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2026). India Flora Online. http://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Eleusine indica. Downloaded on 30 January 2026.
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