Taxon: Desmodium triflorum (L.) DC.

• the 6 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• three-flower beggarweed   (Source: Names Beetle ) – English
  
• three-flower ticktrefoil   (Source: Atlas Florida ) – English
  
• san dian jin   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• kuddalia   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – India
  
• amor-do-campo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• hierba cuartillo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: lawn/turf   (for lawns fide F Panama)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (in Myanmar fide L Edible Pl)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Pl Res SEAs 4:116. 1992)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Pl Res SEAs 12(1):249. 1999)
  
• Weed   (fide F Panama)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Cameroon; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Benin; Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Liberia; Nigeria; Sierra Leone; Togo
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Zambia
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Mauritius; Reunion; Seychelles
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Yemen
  Western Asia: Iran
  China: China - Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Ryukyu Islands; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
  North Indian Ocean: Maldives
  Indo-China: Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia - Celebes, Irian Jaya, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Moluccas, Sumatra; New Guinea; Philippines; Singapore
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Northern Territory, Queensland
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Veracruz
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda; Barbados; Cayman Islands; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Haiti; Jamaica; Martinique; Netherlands Antilles; Puerto Rico; St. Kitts and Nevis; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Nicaragua; Panama
  Brazil: Brazil

• AFRICA
  South Tropical Africa: Zimbabwe
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Malesia: Christmas Island
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Marshall Islands; Micronesia; Northern Mariana Islands; Palau
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; Nauru; New Caledonia; Samoa
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname

• also cultivated

References:

• 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 4:116.
• Beetle, A. A. 1970. Recommended plant names. Univ. Wyoming Agr. Exp. Sta. Res. J. 31.
• Boudet, G. et al. 1986. Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali.
• Brunel, J. F. et al., eds. 1984. Flore analytique du Togo. Phanerogames.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Hacker, J. B. 1990. A guide to herbaceous and shrub legumes of Queensland.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Huang, S. F. & T. C. Huang. 1987. Taxonomic treatment of the Papilionoideae (Leguminosae) of Taiwan. Taiwania 32:11-117.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• International Legume Database & Information Service. International Legume Database and Information Service (on-line resource).
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
• Kumar, S & P. V. Sane. 2003. Legumes of South Asia: a checklist.
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption.
• Lewis, G. P. 1987. Legumes of Bahia.
• Lock, J. M. & C. S. Ford. 2004. Legumes of Malesia: a checklist.
• Lock, J. M. & J. Heald. 1994. Legumes of Indochina: a checklist.
• Lock, J. M. & K. Simpson. 1991. Legumes of West Asia: a checklist.
• Lock, J. M. 1989. Legumes of Africa: a checklist.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Missouri Botanical Garden. Flora of Mesoamerica Checklist (on-line resource).
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Ohashi, H. 1973. The Asiatic species of Desmodium and its allied genera (Leguminosae). Ginkgoana 1:245.
• Ohashi, H. 1988. Desmodium (Leguminosae) of the Hawaiian islands. Sci. Rep. Tohoku Imp. Univ., Ser. 4, Biol. 39:187.
• Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 12(1):249.
• Pulle, A. A. et al., eds. 1932–. Flora of Suriname.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Verdcourt, B. 1974. Summary of the Leguminosae - Papilionoideae - Hedysareae (sensu lato) of Flora Zambesiaca. Kirkia 9:512.
• Verdcourt, B. 1979. A manual of New Guinea legumes.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Wunderlin, R. & B. Hansen. Atlas of Florida vascular plants (on-line resource).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Desmodium triflorum.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Desmodium triflorum.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Hedysarum triflorum L. (basionym)
  
• (≡) Meibomia triflora (L.) Kuntze
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other web resources for Desmodium triflorum (L.) DC.:

• 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
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• 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.

Images or nodulation data:

• Fruit and 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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