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Botanical record

Eleusine indica

Eleusine indica is recorded under 2 local names in the published Nigerian ethnobotanical literature Sanko has mapped, across ijc and Yoruba.

Accepted botanical name
Eleusine indica
Names as published
Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn. and Eleusine indica (Linn.)
Common English
Bermuda grass
Parts reported
stem and root
GBIF taxonomy
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Local names recorded for Eleusine indica

Sanko uses this survey for its published name mapping and reported plant parts only. The subject the survey investigated is not a therapeutic claim about this plant.

Local nameLanguageWhere recordedSource
Agolo ijc Bayelsa Central Senatorial District, Bayelsa State, Nigeria Ethnobotanical survey and conservation of the indigenous plants used for traditional orthopedic care practices in Bayelsa Central Senatorial District, Nigeria — Table 2, row 17
Gbegi Yoruba Alimosho, Badagry, Eti-Osa, Ijebu and Imota, Lagos State, Nigeria Ethnobotanical Survey of Local Flora Used for Medicinal Purposes among Indigenous People in Five Areas in Lagos State, Nigeria — Supplementary Table S1, row 70