Eclipta Linnaeus (Q2738)

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Eclipta is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Heliantheae
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Eclipta Linnaeus
Eclipta is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Heliantheae

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    taxon/id/Eclipta Linnaeus
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    Eclipta Linnaeus
    Eclipta
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 21: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 8: Asteraceae, part 3. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Mostly warm-temperate to tropical New World
    in Old World
    Stems erect or decumbent, branched from bases and/or distally (sometimes rooting at proximal nodes).
    petiolate or sessile;
    blades (1-nerved or 3-nerved) lanceolate to lance-linear, bases cuneate, margins serrate to subentire, faces sparsely scabrellous.
    Heads radiate, in loose, corymbiform arrays or borne singly.
    Involucres hemispheric, 3–5 mm diam.
    Phyllaries persistent, 8–12+ in 2–3 series (lanceolate to linear, subequal, thin-herbaceous, spreading in fruit).
    Receptacles flat to convex, paleate (paleae linear to filiform, not conduplicate, falling with fruits).
    Ray-florets 20–40 (in 2–3+ series), pistillate, fertile;
    corollas white or whitish.
    Disc-florets 15–30+, bisexual, fertile;
    corollas white or whitish, tubes much shorter than ampliate, cylindric throats, lobes 4–5, ± deltate.
    Cypselae obcompressed, weakly 3–4-angled (not winged, epidermes usually corky and rugose to tuberculate);