Eclipta

Eclipta is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family.[4][5]

Species[3][6]

• 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

For the genus of beetles, see Eclipta (beetle).

Eclipta
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]
Eclypta E.Mey. Eupatoriophalacron Adans Clipteria Raf. Abasoloa La Llave & Lex. Ecliptica Rumph. ex Kuntze Abasoloa La Llave Paleista Raf. Micrelium Forssk.

References

1. Tropicos, Eclipta L.
2. The Plant List, Eclipta erecta L.
3. The Plant List, search for Eclipta
4. Linnaeus, Carl von. 1771. Mantissa Plantarum 2: 157 in Latin
5. Asteraceae. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants.
6. Umemoto, S. and H. Koyama. (2007). A new species of Eclipta (Compositae: Heliantheae) and its allies in eastern Asia. Archived 2014-03-31 at the Wayback Machine Thai Forest Bulletin (Botany) 35 108-18.