| Class: | Liliopsida |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Genus: | Eleusine |
| Editor | Rilke, Pavlenko & Khabibullaev |
| Name acc. to: | Flora Turkmenii 1 (1932) |
| Herbar: | list records  |
| Synonym: | Cynosurus indicus L. (acc. to Flora Azerbaidschana 1 (1950)) |
| Description: | Annual. Culms compressed. Leaf blades usually folded; ligule very small, ciliate. Inflorescence digitate racemes; racemes with closely imbricate, biseriate spikelets, terminating in a fertile spikelet. Spikelets laterally compressed, florets several, glumes shorter than lemmas, awnless; lemmas membranous, 3-veined, glabrous, obtuse or acute. Grain subglobose. |
| Confuse with: | Cynodon and Chloris have also digitate inflorescence. |
| Comments: | x = 9 Flowering and fruiting Jul–Sep Remarkable for their ornamented grains . |
| Link to Flora of China: | The palnt list, digital Herbarium Moskau, Plantarium???? |
| species: 1 |