Loureiro, J. de (1790), Flora Cochinchinensis Edn. 1, 2: 459 [tax. nov.]

Ohashi, H. & Ohashi, K. (2018), Grona, a genus separated from Desmodium (Leguminosae Tribe Desmodieae. Journal of Japanese Botany 93(2): 106, 108 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Perrottetia DC. nom. illeg., nom. superfl. taxonomic synonym: Desmodium sect. Nicolsonia (DC.) Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Desmodium sect. Sagotia (Duchass. & Walp.) Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Desmodium subg. Sagotia (Duchass. & Walp.) Baker legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Nicolsonia DC. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Perrottetia DC. nom. illeg., nom. superfl. taxonomic synonym: Nicholsonia Span. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Sagotia Duchass. & Walp. nom. rej. taxonomic synonym: Desmodium sect. Nicolsonia (DC.) Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Desmodium sect. Sagotia (Duchass. & Walp.) Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Desmodium subg. Sagotia (Duchass. & Walp.) Baker legitimate taxonomic synonym: Meibomia sect. Nicolsonia (DC.) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Desmodium sect. Stenostachys Schindl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Desmodium ser. Stenostachys (Schindl.) Pedley legitimate taxonomic synonym: Desmodium ser. Sagotia (Duchass. & Walp.) Pedley legitimate

• APC Comment: Included in the circumscription of Desmodium in Qld.
• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT, Qld

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