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Desmodium intortum (Mill.)Urb.

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HIGHER TAXON: Desmodieae

GENUS: Desmodium Desv.

Desmodium intortum (Mill.)Urb. [Preferred name]
    Desmodium hjalmarsonii (Schindl.)Standl. {Synonym}
    Desmodium intortum var. apiculatum B.G.Schub. {Synonym}
    Desmodium trigonum DC. {Synonym}
    Hedysarum intortum Mill. {Synonym}
    Hedysarum trigonum Sw. {Synonym}
    Meibomia hjalmarsonii Schindl. {Synonym}
    Meibomia intorta (Mill.)S.F.Blake {Synonym}
    Meibomia trigona F.W.Gandara {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Amor Seco [1645]; Beggarlice [1902]; Copal De Coche [1645]; Desmodium Greenleaf [261]; Greenleaf Desmodium [1902, 1919]; Mozote [1645]; Pega Pega [1645]; Zarza Blanca [1645]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (I) [8]; Kenya (I) [8]; Malawi (I) [8]; Nigeria (I) [8]; Rwanda (I) [220]; Uganda (I) [8]; Zambia (I) [8]; Zimbabwe (I) [8]
  Australasia
Australia (I) [1880]; Queensland [1880]; Papua New Guinea (I) [261]
  Caribbean
Dominican Republic (N) [1056, 1430, 2157]; Guadeloupe (I) [1790]; Haiti (N) [1056, 1430, 2157]; Jamaica (N) [1056, 1229, 1243, 1470, 1645, 2157]; Martinique (I) [1790]; Puerto Rico (N) [1056, 1430, 2157]; Virgin Is (N) [2157]
  Central America
Belize (N) [1242]; Costa Rica (N) [1658]; El Salvador (N) [1460, 1645, 2156]; Guatemala (N) [1460, 1645]; Mexico(North & Central) (N) [1442, 1460, 1470]; Mexico(South East) (N) [1117, 1229, 1442, 1460, 1470]; Nicaragua (N) [3348]; Panama (N) [1224, 1243, 1460, 1645]
  Indian Ocean
Reunion (I) [1915]
  North America
United States (N) [1431, 1470, 1915, 3157]; Arizona [3157]
  Pacific Ocean
Hawaii (I) [1949]
  South America
Brazil (N) [1229]; Colombia (N) [1292]; Ecuador (N) [1229]; Peru (N) [1229, 1243, 1442, 1470]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Cultivated [220];
    Lake Victoria regional transition zone; grasslands [220];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [220, 261, 1056, 1243, 1470, 1645, 1915, 1917, 1919, 2157, 3348] ; Illustration [261, 1919]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Climbing [3348], Not climbing [261] [1915] ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2005-07 (Americas update) Sokolova IV [3157] [3348] ; Habit: Herb [261] [1915], Shrub [261] ; Lifespan: Perennial [261] ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1988 (Americas) Zarucchi JL, 1993 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H, 1993 Polhill RM, 1993 Zarucchi JL, 2004 (Malesia) Lock JM & Ford C (SJ2005), 2005 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H (JS2005)

  
USES:
  Environmental [220]; Forage [261, 1915]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

  Lock, J.M., 1985
    Specimen in Herb.Kew

220.

  Troupin, G., 1984
    Flore du Rwanda

261.

  Verdcourt, B., 1979
    A Manual of New Guinea Legumes. Office of Forests, Lae,PNG

1056.

  Adams, C.D., 1972
    Flowering Plants of Jamaica Univ. West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

1117.

  Breedlove, D.E., 1986
    Listados Floristicos de Mexico 4:90-112 Flora de Chiapas

1224.

  D'Arcy, W.G., 1987
    Monogr.Syst.Botany Missouri Botanical Garden. Flora Panama.

1229.

  Dodson, C.H. & Gentry, A.H., 1978
    Selbyana 4(1-6):372-396 Legum.In:Flora Rio Palenque Science

1242.

  Dwyer, J.D. & Spellman, D.L., 1981
    Rhodora 83(834):161-236 A List of Dicotyledoneae of Belize

1243.

  Dwyer, J.D. et al., 1980
    Ann.Missouri Bot.Gard.67(3):523-818 ...Papilionoideae

1292.

  Garcia-Barriga, H. & Forero, E., 1968
    Catalogo Ilustrado de Las Plantas de Cundinamarca 3:1-136

1430.

  Liogier, A.H., 1988
    Desc. Flora Puerto Rico & Adjacent Is-Spermatophyta Vol. II

1431.

  List Based Record, 1986
    U.S. Soil Conservation Service

1442.

  Macbride, J.F., 1943
    Publ.Field Mus.Nat.Hist.,Bot.Ser.13(3/1):1-506 Leguminosae

1460.

  Matuda, E., 1981
    Gobierno del Estado de Mexico.Las Legum. del Estado Mexico

1470.

  McVaugh, R., 1987
    Flora Novo-Galiciana 5:1-786. Leguminosae

1645.

  Standley, P.C. & Steyermark, J.A, 1946
    Fieldiana, Bot. 24(5):1-425 Leguminosae

1658.

  Standley, P.C., 1937
    Publ.Field Mus.Nat.Hist.,Bot.Ser.18(2):487-559...Costa Rica

1790.

  Howard, R.A. et al., 1988
    Dicotyledoneae Part 1.Fl. Lesser Antilles Arnold Arboretum

1880.

  Hnatiuk, R.J., 1990
    Census Australian Vasc. Plants, Bureau Fl. & Fauna, Canberra

1902.

  Terrell, E.E., 1977
    Checklist of Names for 3,000 Vas.Pl... Agric.Handbook No.505

1915.

  Polhill, R, M., 1990
    Legumineuses.In:Flore des Mascareignes,Vol 80.J. Bosser et a

1917.

  Harden, G.J.(Ed.), 1991
    Flora of New South Wales,Vol 2. Kensington: New South Wales

1919.

  Hacker, J.B., 1990
    A Guide to Herbaceous and Shrub Legumes of Queensland.

1949.

  Wagner, W.L. et al, 1990
    Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii, Vol.1.

2156.

  Berendsohn, W.G. & AranivaGonza, 1979
    Cuscatlania 1(2):1-16

2157.

  Liogier, A.H., 1985
    La Flore de la Espanola.III

3157.

  Isely, D., 1998
    Native & naturalized Leg.of the USA.Brigham Young Univ.Utah

3348.

  Stevens, W.D., et al., 2001
    Flora de Nicaragua,85(2)...Missouri Bot.Gard.Press
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