Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1825), Leguminosae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 2: 331 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Hedysarum uncinatum Jacq. legitimate

Beadle, N.C.W. (1976), Student's Flora of North Eastern New South Wales 3: 423 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 308, 312, Fig. 51I [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Hedysarum uncinatum Jacq. legitimate common name: Silver-leaf Desmodium [n/a]

Gardner, C.L. & James, T.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Desmodium. Flora of New South Wales 2: 411 [secondary reference]

common name: Silver-leaved Desmodium [n/a]

Pedley, L. (25 January 1999), Desmodium Desv. (Fabaceae) and related genera in Australia: a taxonomic revision. Austrobaileya 5(2): 253, map 43 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.L., James, T.A. & Murray, L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Desmodium. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 578 [secondary reference]

common name: Silver-leaved Desmodium [n/a]

Ohashi, H. (2004), Taxonomy and distribution of Desmodium and related genera (Leguminosae) in Malesia (I). Journal of Japanese Botany 79(2): 136 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Desmodium intortum (Mill.) Urb. legitimate

CHAH (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Hedysarum uncinatum Jacq. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Meibomia uncinata (Jacq.) Kuntze legitimate

• APC Dist.: Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

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