Tasmania has
one or two introduced species of Eleusine. Eleusine
tristachya is an uncommon weed that can be seen along roadsides
(e.g. in Cambridge).
The inflorescence is unmistakeable. The spikelets form dense,
flattened, relatively broad, one-sided spikes that all arise in one
place. In E. tristachya, there are two to five of these
spikes. In E. indica there are more. |