Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Eclipta prostrata
botoncillo, clavel de pozo, monte negro, eclipta, false daisy, yerba de tago
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Eclipta
Species
prostrata
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Eclipta alba (L.) Hassk. (POWO, 2022); Syn.: Eclipta alba, E. erecta fide Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & Missouri Botanical Garden (2010). In Itow (1997) as Eclipta alba.
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Itow, S. (1997) List of Plant Specimens collected in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Bulletin of the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Nagasaki University, Natural Science, 38 (1): 53-144.
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2022) Plants of the world online POWO (2022): Plants of the world online. Published on the Internet; Https://powo.science.kew.org/
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Missouri Botanical Garden (eds.) (2013) The Plant List, Version 1.1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 1st January).
- Stewart, A. (1911) A botanical survey of the Galápagos Islands. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 4th Series, 1: 7-288.
- Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Eclipta prostrata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=306. Accessed 4 April 2026.