Saint-Hilaire, J.H.H. (1813), Extrait d'un Memoire sur les genres Hedysarum et Aeschinomene de Linnaeus. Nouveau Bulletin des Sciences par la Societe Philomatique de Paris 3: 192 [tax. nov.]

Ohashi, K., Ohashi, H., Nemoto, T., Ikeda, T., Izuma, H., Kobayashi, H., Muragaki, H., Nata, K., Sato, N. & Suzuki, M. (2018), Phylogenetic analyses for a new classification of the Desmodium group of Leguminosae Tribe Desmodieae. Journal of Japanese Botany 93(3): 184 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "(designated here): D. gangeticum (L.) DC."

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

taxonomic synonym: Desmodium sect. Heteroloma Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Meibomia sect. Heteroloma (Benth.) Kuntze legitimate

• APC Comment: Included in the circumscription of Desmodium in Qld.
• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW

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