Eclipta
For the genus of beetles, see Eclipta (beetle).
Eclipta | |
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Eclipta prostrata (marsh daisy) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Eudicots |
(unranked): | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Tribe: | Heliantheae |
Genus: | Eclipta L. |
Type species | |
Eclipta erecta L. (syn of E. prostrata)[1][2] | |
Synonyms[3] | |
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Eclipta is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family.[4][5]
- Eclipta alatocarpa - Queensland, Northern Territory, South Australia
- Eclipta angustata - apparently native to Nepal and Bengal; widely naturalized in China, Ryukyu Islands, Southeast Asia, northern India
- Eclipta elliptica - southern Brazil, Uruguay, northeastern Argentina
- Eclipta leiocarpa - Colombia
- Eclipta megapotamica - southern Brazil, Uruguay, northeastern Argentina
- Eclipta paludicola - southern Brazil
- Eclipta platyglossa - Australia
- Eclipta prostrata - Japan, China, Nepal, Australia, North and South America; naturalized in Europe, Africa, Pacific Islands
- Eclipta pusilla - Puerto Rico
References
- ↑ Tropicos, Eclipta L.
- ↑ The Plant List, Eclipta erecta L.
- 1 2 The Plant List, search for Eclipta
- ↑ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1771. Mantissa Plantarum 2: 157 in Latin
- ↑ Asteraceae. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants.
- ↑ Umemoto, S. and H. Koyama. (2007). A new species of Eclipta (Compositae: Heliantheae) and its allies in eastern Asia. Thai Forest Bulletin (Botany) 35 108-18.
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