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|accepted_name=Eclipta
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mant. Pl.,
|place=157, 286. 1771
|year=1771
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae;Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Ecliptinae;Eclipta
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Ecliptinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Eclipta]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek ekleipsis, a failing, perhaps alluding to minute or wanting pappus
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 64, 67
|treatment_page=page 128
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>or perennials, 10–50(–70+) cm. <b>Stems</b> erect or decumbent, branched from bases and/or distally (sometimes rooting at proximal nodes). <b>Leaves</b> cauline; opposite; petiolate or sessile; blades (1- or 3-nerved) lanceolate to lance-linear, bases cuneate, margins serrate to subentire, faces sparsely scabrellous. <b>Heads</b> radiate, in loose, corymbiform arrays or borne singly. <b>Involucres</b> hemispheric, 3–5 mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent, 8–12+ in 2–3 series (lanceolate to linear, subequal, thin-herbaceous, spreading in fruit). <b>Receptacles</b> flat to convex, paleate (paleae linear to filiform, not conduplicate, falling with fruits). <b>Ray</b> florets 20–40 (in 2–3+ series), pistillate, fertile; corollas white or whitish. <b>Disc</b> florets 15–30+, bisexual, fertile; corollas white or whitish, tubes much shorter than ampliate, cylindric throats, lobes 4–5, ± deltate. <b>Cypselae</b> obcompressed, weakly 3–4-angled (not winged, epidermes usually corky and rugose to tuberculate); pappi persistent, coroniform (sometimes with 2 teeth). <b>x</b> = 11.</span><!--

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|distribution=Mostly warm-temperate to tropical New World;introduced in Old World.
|discussion=<p>Species 1–4 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Eclipta
|author=John L. Strother
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Marjorie C. Leggitt
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=Mostly warm-temperate to tropical New World;introduced in Old World.
|reference=None
|publication title=Mant. Pl.,
|publication year=1771
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae
|subtribe=Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Ecliptinae
|genus=Eclipta
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