Merrill, E.D. (1905), Notes on Cuming's Philippine Plants in the herbarium of the Bureau of Government Laboratories. Publications of the Bureau of Government Laboratories (Philippines) 35: 20 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Cytisus quinquepetalus Blanco legitimate

Knaap-van Meeuwen, M.S. (1962), Preliminary revisions of some genera of Malaysian Papilionaceae V - a census of the genus Desmodium. Reinwardtia 6(3): 256-257 [secondary reference]

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: 68 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Dendrolobium quinquepetalum (Blanco) Schindl. legitimate

Ohashi, H. (2004), Taxonomy and distribution of Desmodium and related genera (Leguminosae) in Malesia (I). Journal of Japanese Botany 79(2): 113 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Dendrolobium quinquepetalum (Blanco) Schindl. legitimate

Ohashi, H. (2004), Taxonomy and distribution of Desmodium and related genera (Leguminosae) in Malesia (I). Journal of Japanese Botany 79(2): 111 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Dendrolobium arbuscula (Domin) H.Ohashi legitimate by Knaap-van Meeuwen, M.S. (1962), Preliminary revisions of some genera of Malaysian Papilionaceae V - a census of the genus Desmodium. Reinwardtia 6(3): 256-257

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