Taxon: Desmodium adscendens (Sw.) DC.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Desmodium adscendens var. robustum (no accessions)

Common names:

• strongback   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 ) – English
  
• tick-clover   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 11:117.) – English
  
• tick-trefoil   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• amor-do-campo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (cover crop fide L. J. G. van der Maesen)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Pl Res SEAs 12(1):245. 1999; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Equatorial Guinea; Gabon; Rwanda; Sao Tome and Principe; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Liberia; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: South Africa - KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Thailand
  Malesia: Malaysia; Papua New Guinea
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Mexico
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda - Antigua; Cuba; Dominica; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; Puerto Rico; St. Kitts and Nevis - St. Kitts; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines - St. Vincent
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru

References:

• Iheringia, Bot. 31:57.
• Boggan, J. et al. 1997. Checklist of the plants of the Guianas, ed. 2. (L Guianas ed2)
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. (L Peru)
• Brunel, J. F. et al., eds. 1984. Flore analytique du Togo. Phanerogames. (F Togo)
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds. 1997. Auxiliary plants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 11:117–118.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
• León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969 (F CubaLeon)
• Lewis, G. P. & P. E. Owen. 1989. Legumes of the Ilha de Maraca. (Leg Maraca)
• Lewis, G. P. 1987. Legumes of Bahia. (Leg Bahia)
• Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 1982. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis. (F PR)
• Lock, J. M. 1989. Legumes of Africa: a checklist. (Leg Africa)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Missouri Botanical Garden. W³Tropicos - on-line resource. (TROPICOS)
• Ohashi, H. 1973. The Asiatic species of Desmodium and its allied genera. Ginkgoana 1:199.
• Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 12(1):245.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Sanjappa, M. 1992. Legumes of India. (Leg India)
• Schrire. 1988. Bothalia 18:16. [v. robustum].
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala. (F Guat)
• Thulin, M. 1983. Leguminosae of Ethiopia. Opera Bot. 68:1-223. (Leg Ethiop)
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
• Verdcourt, B. 1974. Kirkia 9:514.
• Verdcourt, B. 1979. A manual of New Guinea legumes. (Leg New Guinea)
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama. (F Panama)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Desmodium adscendens.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Desmodium adscendens. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Desmodium ovalifolium Guill. & Perr.
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)
• (≡) Hedysarum adscendens Sw. (basionym)
  
• (≡) Meibomia adscendens (Sw.) Kuntze
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other databases for Desmodium adscendens (Sw.) DC.:

• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images or nodulation data:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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