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=== Taxonomic history === In 1753, [[Carl Linnaeus]] described [[foxtail millet]] as ''Panicum italicum''. In 1812, [[Palisot de Beauvois]] grouped several taxa into ''Setaria italica''.<ref name="House 1995"/> The genus ''[[Pennisetum]]'' was divided by [[Otto Stapf (botanist)|Otto Stapf]] in 1934<!--posthumous publication--> into the section ''penicillaria'', with 32 species including all the cultivated ones, and four other sections. In 1977, J. Brunken and colleagues classed the wild ''P. violaceum'' as part of the cultivated species ''P. glaucum'' (pearl millet).<ref name="House 1995">{{cite book |last=House |first=L. R. |chapter=Sorghum and millets: History, taxonomy, and distribution |editor=Dendy, David A.V. |title=Sorghum and Millets: Chemistry and Technology |year=1995 |publisher=American Association of Cereal Chemists |location=St. Paul, Minnesota |pages=1β9 |url=https://oar.icrisat.org/5486/1/Sorghum_&_Millets_Chemistry_and_Technology_1-9.pdf}}</ref> [[Finger millet]] was described as ''Eleusine coracana'' by [[Joseph Gaertner]] in 1788.<ref>{{cite web |title=Eleusine coracana (finger millet) |date=2019 |url=https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1079/cabicompendium.20674 |publisher=CABI |doi=10.1079/cabicompendium.20674 |access-date=3 January 2025}}</ref>
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