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Desmodium brachypodum

Desmodium brachypodum A.Gray

Gray, A. (1854), United States Exploring Expedition Phanerogamia 1: 434
TYPE:   (not designated).
COMMENT:   Base name for Meibomia brachypoda (A.Gray) Kuntze.

Knaap-van Meeuwen, M.S. (1962) Preliminary revisions of some genera of Malaysian Papilionaceae V - a census of the genus Desmodium. Reinwardtia 6(3): 239-276 (247-248)

Ohashi, H. (1973) The Asiatic Species of Desmodium and Its Allied Genera (Leguminosae). Ginkgoana, contributions to the flora of Asia and the Pacific Region 1: 1-318 (227-229)
Nomenclatural Synonyms:

Meibomia brachypoda (A.Gray) Kuntze ;  Kuntze, C.E.O. (1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 1: 197

Pedley, L. (1999) Desmodium Desv. (Fabaceae) and related genera in Australia: a taxonomic revision. Austrobaileya 5(2): 233, map 16
taxonomic Synonyms:

Desmodium indigotinum Harms & K.Schum. ;  Harms, H.A.T. in Schumann, K. & Lauterbach, K. (1905), Nachtrage zur Flora der Deutschen Schutzgebiete in der Sudsee: 276