Desmodium tortuosum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Fabales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Rosids Cladus: Eurosids I Ordo: Fabales

Desmodium tortuosum (Sw.) DC., 1825

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Northern America
- - Alabama, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest
Continental: Southern America
- - Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is.
- Introduced into:
  - Angola, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, Chad, China Southeast, Congo, Cook Is., Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, Florida, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Gilbert Is., Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mississippi, Mozambique, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nigeria, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Queensland, Rwanda, Réunion, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Carolina, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Tanzania, Texas, Togo, Tonga, Uganda, Western Australia, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

De Candolle, A.P. 1825. Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis, sive enumeratio contracta ordinum, generum, specierumque plantarum huc usque cognitarum, juxta methodi naturalis normas digesta. Pars 2: Sistens Calyciflorarum ordines X. 644 pp. Treuttel et Würtz, Parisiis [Paris]. BHL Reference page. : 2:332.

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Tropicos.org 2020. Desmodium tortuosum. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 19 Nov 2020.
Catalogue of Life: 2024 Annual Checklist
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Desmodium tortuosum in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 07-Oct-06.