Eclipta prostrata
Distribución geográfica
Aparentemente nativa del nuevo mundo, actualmente se distribuye ampliamente en los campos de cultivo de ambos hemisferios.
Descripción botánica
Hierba erecta o postrada, anual o de corta vida. Hojas opuestas, simples de casi 7 cm de largo elípticas a lanceoladas, mucronadas en el ápice. Inflorescencias terminales a veces axilares; cabezuelas pequeñas, 3-9 mm transversalmente, radiadas, brácteas involucrales 8-9, imbricadas; flores blancas. Aquenio dorsiventralmente compreso y exactamente angulado, ligeramente alado.
Voucher(s)
FLORPAN,1932,PMA
Farmacopea
Ed.3References
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