Desmodium sandwicense information from NPGS/GRIN

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Taxon: Desmodium sandwicense E. Mey.

Genus: Desmodium
Family: Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae) subfamily: Faboideae tribe: Desmodieae subtribe: Desmodiinae. Also placed in: Papilionaceae
Nomen number: 13672
Place of publication: Cat. sem. horti regiomont. 4. 1850 (Linnaea 24:230. 1851)
Name verified on: 26-Jun-1989 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 19-Sep-1998
Species priority site is: Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit, Griffin, GA (S9).
Accessions: 20 in National Plant Germplasm System.

Common names:

Hawaiian tick trefoil (Source: H. Ohashi) – English

Distributional range:

Naturalized: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

PACIFIC
North-Central Pacific: U.S. Outlying Islands - Midway Islands; United States - Hawaii
South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia - Marquesas Islands
Southwestern Pacific: Tonga

Other:

possible origin South America

References:

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
Fosberg, F. R. 1968. Critical notes on Pacific Island plants part 2. Micronesica 4:257. [= D. intortum var. pilosiusculum (DC.) Fosb.].
Ohashi, H. 1988. Desmodium (Leguminosae) of the Hawaiian islands. Sci. Rep. Tohoku Imp. Univ., Ser. 4, Biol. 39:183.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Desmodium sandwicense.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Desmodium sandwicense.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Desmodium sandwicense.

Synonyms:

(≡) "Desmodium limense var. sandwicense (E. Mey.) Schindl. ex O. N. Allen & E. K. Allen, nom. nud."

Check other web resources for Desmodium sandwicense E. Mey.:

PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
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.

Images or nodulation data:

GRIN nodulation data

More:

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

Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?13672 (20 May 2013)

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