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Taxon: Eclipta prostrata (L.) L.

Genus: Eclipta
Family: Asteraceae (alt. Compositae).
Nomen number: 104200
Place of publication: Mant. pl. 2:286. 1771
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 23-Sep-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 01-Sep-2004
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:
OK(as Eclipta alba)*°.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • native in warm-temperate & tropical America

      Naturalized:
  • worldwide weed

References:

  • Burkart, A. E., ed. 1969–. Flora ilustrada de Entre Rios. (F EntreR)
  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. (Glea Cron)
  • Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. (Glea Cron ed2)
  • Greuter, W. et al., eds. 2000. International code of botanical nomenclature (Saint Louis Code). (ICBN St Louis) Art. 11.5, Ex. 20.
  • Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
  • Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed) [= E. alba].
  • Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
  • Hu, S.-Y. 1970. Compositae of China. (Comp China)
  • Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
  • Malezasdemexico. Malezas de México - on-line resource. (Malezas Mex)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). (F JapanOhwi)
  • Radford, A. E. et al., eds. 1980–. Vascular flora of the southeastern United States. (F SE US)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act. (State Noxweed Seed)
  • Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
  • Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama. (F Panama)
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Check other databases for Eclipta prostrata (L.) L.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?104200 (09 February 2010)

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