Desvaux, N.A. in Desvaux, N.A. (ed.) (1813), Precis des caracteres de plusieurs genres de la famille des Legumineuses. Journal de Botanique, Appliquee l'Agriculture, a la Pharmacie, a la Medicine et aux Arts 1(2): 124, pl. 5, fig. 24 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Hedysarum pulchellum L. legitimate

Desvaux, N.A. (1826), Sur la tribu des Coronillees, Huitieme section des legumineuses. Mémoires de la Société linnéenne de Paris 4: 324 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 231 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Desmodium pulchellum (L.) Benth. legitimate

Ohashi, H. (15 February 1973), The Asiatic species of Desmodium and its allied genera (Leguminosae). Ginkgoana, contributions to the flora of Asia and the Pacific Region 1: 276-279 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Desmodium pulchellum (L.) Benth. legitimate

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1987), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 1: 26 [secondary reference]

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1989), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 2: 28 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Papilionaceae (Fabaceae). Flora of the Kimberley Region: 423, Fig. 128C [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 72 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Desmodium pulchellum (L.) Benth. legitimate

Pedley, L. (25 January 1999), Desmodium Desv. (Fabaceae) and related genera in Australia: a taxonomic revision. Austrobaileya 5(2): 257 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Desmodium pulchellum (L.) Benth. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Meibomia pulchella (L.) Kuntze legitimate

Ohashi, H. (2004), Taxonomy and distribution of Desmodium and related genera (Leguminosae) in Malesia (II). Journal of Japanese Botany 79: 168 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Hedysarum pulchellum L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Dicerma pulchellum (L.) DC. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Desmodium pulchellum (L.) Benth. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Phyllodium pulchrum Desv. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Hedysarum pulchellum L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Dicerma pulchellum (L.) DC. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Desmodium pulchellum (L.) Benth. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Meibomia pulchella (L.) Kuntze legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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