Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 109: 1326 (2012).- Type: Drake-Brockman, Somalia 616, 617, 646, 647 (syn- K).
Eleusine somalensis Hack., Mém. Herb. Boissier 20: 6 (1900);
Drake-Brockmannia somalensis Stapf, Bull. Misc. Inf. Kew. 1912: 197 (1912).
Regional litterature: FTEA: 184, fig. 58 (1974); Fl. Ethiopia & Eritrea 7: 109, fig. (1995); Pl. Sudan & S Sudan: 127 (2015)
Description:
* Mat-forming annual of 5-15 cm high. Culms spreading, rooting at the nodes, much branched. Leaves up to 9.5 cm long and 2.5-4.5 mm wide, flat, papillose-hispid, acute
* Inflorescence an often subcapitate panicle with 2-6 ovate spikes of 0.7-1.7 cm long on an axis of up to 3 cm long.
* Spikelets 5-9-flowered, broadly oblong, 6-11 mm long, yellowish-green with dark green nerves. Lower glume narrowly lanceolate; upper glume half to longer than spikelet, lanceolate with diverging acuminate tip. Lemmas 5-7-nerved, ovate 4-7 mm long, cuspidate or stoutly mucronate; palea keels broadly winged. Anthers 0.4-1.2 mm long. Grain narrowly elliptic-oblong, trigonous.
Distribution West Africa: Sudan.
Distribution world-wide: Ethiopia and NE and E Africa, Saoudi Arabia.