Linnaeus, C. (October 1771), Mantissa Plantarum Altera [2]: 157 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1858), Botanical report on the north-Australian expedition under the command of A.C. Gregory Esq. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Botany 2: 150 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 536 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 83 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 181 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 271 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 118-119 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 604 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Said to be derived from a supposed resemblance of the flowerhead to an eclipse of the sun."

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 875 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 387 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 77 [secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Compositae (Asteraceae) - most genera. Flora of Central Australia: 380 [secondary reference]

Voss, E.G. (1983), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Sydney, 1981. Regnum Vegetabile 111: 420 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Eclipta erecta L. (nom. illeg.) (typ. cons.)

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 556 [secondary reference]

Lawrence, M.E. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Acanthospermum - Gnaphalium. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 942 [secondary reference]

Murray, L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Eclipta. Flora of New South Wales 3: 272 [secondary reference]

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Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Asteraceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 984 [secondary reference]

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Anderberg, A.A., Baldwin, B.G., Bayer, R.G., Breitwieser, I., Jeffrey, C., Dillon, M.O., Eldenäs, P., Funk, V., Garcia-Jacas, N., Hind, D.J.N., Karis, P.O., Lack, H.W., Nesom, G., Nordenstam, B., Oberprieler, C., Panero, J.J., Puttock, C., Robinson, H., Stuessy, T.F., Susanna, A., Urtubey, E., Vogt, R., Ward, J. & Watson, L.E. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2007), Compositae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 8: 450-451, Fig. 93 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 297 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Ecliptica Kuntze orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT, SA, Qld (native and naturalised), NSW, Vic

Orchard, A.E. & Cross, E.W. (8 February 2013), A revision of the Australian species of Eclipta (Asteraceae: Ecliptinae), with discussion of extra-Australian taxa. Nuytsia 23: 47-48 [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Ecliptica Kuntze orth. var.

• Etymology: "From the Greek, ekleipo (to lack) as some species are without a pappus or achene wings."

Orchard, A.E. & Cross, E.W. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Eclipta. Flora of Australia 37: 513-514 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "from the Greek ekleipo (to lack), as some species are without a pappus or wings."

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