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Desmodium uncinatum (Jacq.)DC.

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HIGHER TAXON: Desmodieae

GENUS: Desmodium Desv.

Desmodium uncinatum (Jacq.)DC. [Preferred name]
    Hedysarum uncinatum Jacq. {Synonym}
    Meibomia uncinata (Jacq.)Kuntze {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Amor-de-velha-da-folha-grauda [1414]; Amor-de-velho-comum [1414]; Desmodium Silverleaf [261]; Silverleaf Desmodium [261]; Spanish Tickclover [1902]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Cameroon (I) [8]; Ethiopia (I) [24]; Kenya (I) [8]
  Asia
India (I) [3823]; Kerala [3823]; Indonesia (I) [261, 3898]; Irian Jaya (N) [261]; Jawa (N) [3898]
  Australasia
Australia (I) [1880, 1917]; Papua New Guinea (I) [261]
  Central America
El Salvador (N) [2156]; Honduras (U) [2233]; Mexico(North & Central) (U) [2233]; Mexico(South East) (U) [1188]; Nicaragua (N) [3348]
  North America
United States (U) [1431]
  South America
Argentina (U) [1435, 1442]; Bolivia (U) [1289]; Brazil (U) [8, 1103, 1414, 1435, 1442]; Colombia (U) [1292]; Ecuador (U) [2233]; Paraguay (U) [2233]; Peru (U) [1442]; Venezuela (U) [1442]

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [24, 261, 1917, 1919, 3348, 3823, 3898, 4022] ; Illustration [261, 1919, 3823]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing [261] ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2004-2005 Novoselova MS, 2005-07 (Americas update) Sokolova IV [3348] ; Habit: Herb [261], Shrub [261] ; Lifespan: Annual [3581], Perennial [261] ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1988 (Americas) Zarucchi JL, 1993 Polhill RM, 1993 Zarucchi JL, 2004 (Malesia) Lock JM & Ford C (SJ2005), 2004-11 (S Asia) Kumar S & Sane P

  
USES:
  Forage [261]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

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

24.

  Thulin, M., 1983
    Opera Botanica 68:1-223.Leguminosae of Ethiopia

261.

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

1188.

  Cowan, C.P., 1983
    Listados Floristicos de Mexico 1:47-61 Flora de Tabasco

1289.

  Foster, R.C., 1958
    Contr.Gray Herb.184:91-102 catalogue of...plants of Bolivia

1292.

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

1414.

  Lewis, G.P., 1987
    Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 369 pp Legumes of Bahia

1431.

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

1435.

  Lundell, C.L., 1939
    Lloydia 2(2):73-108 Studies Mexican & C.American Plants-VII

1442.

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

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

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.

2156.

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

2233.

  Zarucchi, J.L., 1993
    Specimen in MO herbarium

3348.

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

3581.

  Kumar, S.& Sane PV, 2003
    Legumes of South Asia: a check-list. RBG Kew.

3823.

  Sasidharan, N., 1996
    Rheedea 6:71-72. Desmodium uncinatum:new record for India.

3898.

  Backer, C.A., 1963
    Flora of Java. Groningen, The Netherlands

4022.

  van Meeuwen, 1961
    1961b - Pseudarthria etc.

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