Eleusine is a genus of Asian, African, and South American plants in the grass family, sometimes called by the common name goosegrass. One species (E. indica), is a widespread weed in many places. Another species E. coracana, is finger millet, cultivated as a cereal grain in India and parts of Africa.(For other uses of "goosegrass", see Goosegrass.)\nnumerous species once included in Eleusine but now considered better suited to other genera: Acrachne Aeluropus Chloris Coelachyrum Dactyloctenium Dinebra Disakisperma Eragrostis Harpochloa Leptochloa Ochthochloa Sclerodactylon Uniola Wangenheimia