Desmodium retinens

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Common Names

Description

Subfamily Faboideae

Mostly herbs, shrubs , or trees . Leaves pinnate or palmate to trifoliolate or apparently simple . Corolla usually, showy, zygomorphic, the petals imbricate, posterior (upper or banner ) petal outermost in bud. Stamens 10 or 9 + 1 (diadelphous ), not showy. Pollen released in monads . Seeds with u-shaped line (pleurogram) lacking. [Carr]

Genus Desmodium

Herbs, undershrubs or shrubs , prostrate to erect . Leaf 1-5-foliolate, leaflets petiolulate , stipels 1 in lateral and 2 in terminal leaflet; stipules free or united , striate and ciliate . Inflorescence terminal or axillary , raceme or panicle or subumbellate. Bract striate and pubescent . Calyx 2-lipped, the upper lobe bifid, the lower 3 toothed or the calyx equally 5-lobed. Corolla exceeding the calyx. Stamens monadelphous or diadelphous , 9+1, anthers uniform . Ovary sessile or stipitate , ovules 2 to many. Fruit sessile or stipitate, transversely jointed , articles variously shaped, glabrous to densely pubescent, hairs straight or hooked .

A genus with about 300-350 species distributed in tropical and temperate areas of the world except Europe, New Zealand.[1]

Physical Description

Habitat

Biome: coastland, disturbed areas, natural forest

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Desmodium wislizeni A. Gray

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: –

Place of publication : Linnaea 12:311. 1838

Similar Species

Members of the genus Desmodium

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 612 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

D. abyssinicum · D. acanthocladum · D. acrocarpum · D. acuminatum · D. adescendens · D. adscedens · D. adscendens (Zarzabacoa Galana) · D. adscendens var. orinocense · D. affine (Tick Trefoil) · D. akoense · D. alamanii · D. alatum · D. albiflorum · D. alysicarpoides · D. amans · D. ambiguum · D. amethystinum · D. amplifolium · D. ancistrocarpum · D. angustatum · D. angustifolium (Narrow-Leaf Tick-Trefoil) · D. angustifolium var. angustifolium · D. angustifolium var. gramineum · D. annuum · D. aparines · D. appressipilum · D. arbuscula · D. arechavaletae · D. arenarium · D. arenicola · D. argenteum · D. arinense · D. arizonicum (Arizona Tick Trefoil) · D. asperum · D. auricomum · D. auriculatum · D. australe · D. axilare · D. axillare (Zarzabacoa De Monte) · D. axillare acutifolium · D. axillare angustatum · D. axillare genuinum · D. axillare obtusifoliola · D. axillare sintenisii · D. axillare var. acutifolium (Zarzabacoa De Monte) · D. axillare var. axillare (Zarzabacoa De Monte) · D. axillare var. stoloniferum (Zarzabacoa De Monte) · D. baccatum · D. bambusetorum · D. barbatum (Zarzabacoa Peluda) · D. barbatum saulierei · D. barbatum subsp. saulierei · D. barbatum var. barbatum · D. barbatum var. dimorphum · D. barbatum var. procumbens · D. barbatum var. venustulum · D. barbigerum · D. barclayi · D. batocaulon (San Pedro Tick Trefoil) · D. bellum · D. benthamii · D. biarticulatum · D. bicolor · D. biflorum · D. bigelovii · D. bioculatum · D. bolsteri · D. boottii · D. brachypodum · D. brachystachyum · D. bracteatum · D. bracteosum · D. brevipes · D. bridgesii · D. brownii · D. buergeri · D. bullamense · D. caespitosum · D. caffrum · D. cajanifolium (Tropical Tick Trefoil) · D. callianthum · D. callilepis · D. campestre · D. campylocaulon · D. campyloclados · D. canadense (Canadian Tick-Trefoil) · D. canadense var. hirsutum · D. canadense var. longifolium · D. canaliculatum · D. canescens (Hoary Tick-Trefoil) · D. canescens var. hirsutum · D. canescens var. villosissimum · D. canum · D. capitatum · D. caripense · D. caudatum · D. cephalotes · D. cephalotoides · D. chamissonis · D. chartaceum

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Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2007. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed September 17, 2007.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed January 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• Nghia, N.H. 1998. Dalbergia entadoides. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• Nielsen IC & Rico ML, 1994 (from ILDIS).
• Pippen, Jeffrey S. Jeff's Nature Page. Accessed December 8, 2007.
• Podlech D, 1996 (from ILDIS).
• Polhill RM, 1993 (from ILDIS).
• Rhytismatales database 2006.
• Schrire BD, 1994-10 (from ILDIS).
• Sokoloff DD, 2001-03 (from ILDIS).
• Stirton CH, 2001-06 (from ILDIS).
• The Global Lepidoptera Names Index2, 12.2, 2005.
• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
• The Virtual Field Herbarium.
• Thomson, Christian (from Diptera).
• USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (April 27, 2008)
• USDA, NRCS. 2005. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.
• van der Maesen LJG, 1993 (from ILDIS).
• van der Maesen, LJG, 2001-03 (from ILDIS).
• Vaz AMSF, 2001-05 (from ILDIS).
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Adenanthera intermedia. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2006.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 28, 2008:

• Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad, Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, A.C., México
• Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad, Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, A.C., México
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Arizona State University Vascular Plant Herbarium
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3874241
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-11202
• GRIN Nomen Number: 436082
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 25820
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDFAB1D170
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: MEWR3
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 35050

Footnotes

1. "Desmodium". in Flora of Pakistan Page 346. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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