Eclipta L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 141

43. Eclipta L. 1

Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves opposite, entire or toothed. Inflorescence of several small, pedunculate capitula. Involucral bracts in 2 rows. Receptacle flat or slightly convex, with scales. Outer florets ligulate, female; the inner tubular, shortly 4(-5)- lobed, hermaphrodite. Outer achenes triangular in section, the inner subterete; pappus absent or of few small teeth.