Citation: Gaertner, Fruct. 1, 7:t. 1 (1788).

Derivation: From Eleusis, a city in Attica, where Demeter, the Roman Ceres, the goddess of cereals and harvests was worshipped.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Crowsfoot grasses.

Description:
Annuals or perennials; leaf blade flat or folded; ligule membranous.

Inflorescence an umbel of spikes, rhachis flattened, bearing the densely imbricate alternately unilateral spikelets; spikelets sessile, laterally compressed, rhachilla disarticulating above the glumes and between the florets, 3-6-flowered; glumes subequal or unequal, membranous, obtuse or obscurely mucronate, with a crested ridged keel, 1-5-nerved; lemmas very similar, 3-nerved to sub-5-nerved; palea slightly shorter, 2-keeled.

Distribution:  (From C. A. Gardner (1952) Flora of Western Australia 1.) 9 species from tropical and subtropical areas of the world.

Biology: No text

Key to Species:

1. Spikes 20-90 mm long, to c. 5 mm wide; spikelets 4-7 mm long	E. indica 1.
1. Spikes to 25 mm long, 5-7 mm wide; spikelets 2-3 mm long	E. tristachya 2.

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