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Eclipta (plant)
''Eclipta'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.Linnaeus, Carl von. 1771. Mantissa Plantarum 2: 157 in Latin ; SpeciesUmemoto, S. and H. Koyama. (2007)A new species of ''Eclipta'' (Compositae: Heliantheae) and its allies in eastern Asia. ''Thai Forest Bulletin (Botany)'' 35 108-18. * ''Eclipta alatocarpa '' - Queensland, Northern Territory, South Australia * ''Eclipta angustata'' - apparently native to Nepal and Bengal; widely naturalized in China, Ryukyu Islands, Southeast Asia, northern India * ''Eclipta elliptica'' - southern Brazil, Uruguay, northeastern Argentina * ''Eclipta leiocarpa'' - Colombia * ''Eclipta megapotamica'' - southern Brazil, Uruguay, northeastern Argentina * ''Eclipta paludicola'' - southern Brazil * ''Eclipta platyglossa'' - Australia * ''Eclipta prostrata'' - Japan, China, Nepal, Australia, North America, North and South America; naturalized in Europe, Africa, Pacific Islands * ''Eclipta pusilla'' - Puerto Rico References * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eclipta Prostrata
''Eclipta prostrata'', commonly known as false daisy, ''yerba de tago'', ''Gunta kalagaraku/Gunta galagaraku'', ''Karisalankanni'', and ''bhringraj'', is a species of plant in the family Asteraceae. It is widespread across much of the world. This plant has cylindrical, grayish roots. Solid, circular, purplish stems with white fine hairs 0.8m. Leaf, Leaves arranged in opposite pairs, hairy in two-sided, lanceolate, serrated 2–12.5 cm long, 5-35 mm wide. The solitary flower heads are in diameter, with white florets. The bumpy achenes are compressed and narrowly winged.Cornelis Gijsbert Gerrit Jan van Steenis, Steenis, CGGJ van (1981). ''Flora, untuk sekolah di Indonesia''. PT Pradnya Paramita, Jakarta. pp. 423-424 This species grows commonly in moist places in warm temperate to tropical areas worldwide. It is widely distributed throughout India, Nepal, China, Thailand, and Brazil. Traditional uses The plant has traditional medicine, traditional uses in Ayurveda. In India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations average to between 73–55 ka.", "Modern human beings—''Homo sapiens''—originated in Africa. Then, int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southern subregion of a single continent called America. South America is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east by the Atlantic Ocean; North America and the Caribbean Sea lie to the northwest. The continent generally includes twelve sovereign states: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela; two dependent territories: the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; and one internal territory: French Guiana. In addition, the ABC islands of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Ascension Island (dependency of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, a British Overseas Territory), Bouvet Island ( dependency of Norway), Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean. Because it is on the North American Plate, North American Tectonic Plate, Greenland is included as a part of North America geographically. North America covers an area of about , about 16.5% of Earth's land area and about 4.8% of its total surface. North America is the third-largest continent by area, following Asia and Africa, and the list of continents and continental subregions by population, fourth by population after Asia, Africa, and Europe. In 2013, its population was estimated at nearly 579 million people in List of sovereign states and dependent territories in North America, 23 independent states, or about 7.5% of the world's population. In Americas (terminology)#Human ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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