- Family : POACEAE
(Grass Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Poaceae
- Synonym(s) : Cynodon coracanus (L.) Raspail; Cynosurus coracanus L.; Eleusine cerealis Salisb.; Eleusine indica subsp. coracana (L.) Lye; Eleusine indica var. coracana (L.) Fiori; Eleusine sphaerosperma Stokes
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.
- Common name : Ragi, Finger millet, African millet, Ragi Cereal
- Vernacular name :
- Nrtyakundalah, Madhulika (Sanskrit)
- Mandva, Maruva (Hindi)
- Ragi (Kannada)
- Raagi Hullu (Kannada)
- Raahi, Kaezh Varagu (Tamil)
- Nachni, Nagi, Nagli (Marathi)
- Keppa, Kora, Koovaragu, Kuravu, Mutthari, Panjapullu, Ragipullu (Malayalam)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Widely cultivated in Paleotropics
- Comments / notes : Cultivated throughout. The millet is rich in protein and is used in local cuisines.
- Flower, Fruit : March-November
- Collector(s) Name : Cecil J. Saldanha
- Collection Date : 23/08/1969
- Collection Nos : CJS 14666
- Collection Locality : Belur, Hassan district
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Cultivated
- Kerala : Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district
- Maharashtra : Amravati district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Kolhapur district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
- Tamil Nadu : Cultivated
- Arunachal Pradesh : Changlang, Lohit, Subansiri, Tirap
- Native : Angola, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Chad, Comoros, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinc
- Exotic/Native : Exotic
- World Distribution : Old World tropics
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka
- Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore district
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi district
- Manjunath et al., 2003 –Flora of Davanagere
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.
- 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.: 287-288
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Eleusine coracana. Downloaded on 14 December 2024.
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