Desmodium salicifolium (Poir.) DC.

First published in Prodr. 2: 337 (1825)
This name is a synonym of Pleurolobus salicifolius

POWO follows these authorities in synonymising this name:

  • Barthelat, F. (2019). La flore illustrée de Mayotte: 1-687. Biotope éditions. [Cited as Pleurolobus salicifolius.]

This name was accepted following an alternative taxonomy by these authorities:

  • Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (eds.) (2006). Flore Analytique du Bénin: 1-1034. Backhuys Publishers. [Cited as Desmodium salicifolium.]
  • Berhaut, J. (1976). Flore illustrée du Sénégal 5: 1-658. Gouvernement du Sénégal, Ministère du développement rural direction des eaux et forêta, Dakar. [Cited as Desmodium salicifolium.]
  • Boudet, G., Lebrun, J.P. & Demange, R. (1986). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali: 1-465. Etudes d'Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux. [Cited as Desmodium salicifolium.]
  • Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Desmodium salicifolium.]
  • Du Puy, D.J., Labat, N.-N., Rabevohitra, R., Villiers, J.-F., Bosser, J. & Moat, J. (2002). The Leguminosae of Madagascar: 1-737. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Desmodium salicifolium.]
  • Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria. [Cited as Desmodium salicifolium.]
  • Figueiredo, E., Paiva, J., Stévart, T., Oliveira, F. & Smith, G.F. (2011). Annotated catalogue of the flowering plants of São Tomé and Príncipe. Bothalia, A Journal of Botanical Research 41: 41-82. [Cited as Desmodium salicifolium.]
  • Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria. [Cited as Desmodium salicifolium.]
  • Govaerts, R. (2000). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS D: 1-30141. [Cited as Desmodium salicifolium .]
  • Lebrun, J.P., Toutain, B., Gaston, A. & Boudet, G. (1991). Catalogue des Plantes Vasculaires du Burkina Faso: 1-341. Institut d' Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, Maisons Alfort. [Cited as Desmodium salicifolium.]
  • Lejoy, J., Ndjele, M.-B. & Geerinck, D. (2010). Catalogue-flore des plantes vasculaires des districts de Kisangani et de la Tshopo (RD Congo). Taxonomania 30: 1-307. [Cited as Desmodium salicifolium.]
  • Lock, J.M. (1989). Legumes of Africa a check-List: 1-619. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Desmodium salicifolium.]
  • Polhill, R.M. (1990). Flore des Mascareignes 80: 1-235. IRD Éditions, MSIRI, RBG-Kew, Paris. [Cited as Desmodium salicifolium.]
  • Sita, P. & Moutsambote, J.-M. (2005). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Congo, ed. sept. 2005: 1-158. ORSTOM, Centre de Brazzaville. [Cited as Desmodium salicifolium.]
  • Velayos, M., Barberá, P., Cabezas, F.J., de la Estrella, M., Fero, M. & Aedo, C. (2014). Checklist of the vascular plants of Annobón (Equatorial Guinea). Phytotaxa 171: 1-78. [Cited as Desmodium salicifolium.]
  • Verdcourt, B. (2000). Flora Zambesiaca 3(6): 1-175. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Desmodium salicifolium.]
  • de la Estrella, M., Cabezas, F.J., Aedo, C. & Velayos, M. (2010). The Papilionoideae (Leguminosae) of Equatorial Guinea (Annobón, Bioko and Río Muni). Folia Geobotanica 45: 1-57. [Cited as Desmodium salicifolium.]

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • Bak. f. Leg. Trop. Afr. 2: 330
  • Prod. 2: 337 (1825)
  • Schubert Fl. Congo Belge 5: 198, t. 15.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Bak. f., Leguminosae of Tropical Africa: 330 (1929).
  • DC., Prodr. 2: 337 (1825).
  • E. Lind & A. Tallantire, Some Common Flowering Plants of Uganda p. 82 (1962).
  • F. White, Forest Flora of Northern Rhodesia p. 150 (1962).
  • Hepper in Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 1: 584 (1958).
  • Schubert in Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de l'État a Bruxelles 22: 294 (1952)
  • Schubert in Flore du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi, 5: 198, t. 15 (1954).

International Legume Database and Information Service

  • Baker, J. G. (1877). Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles
  • Du Puy, D. J. et al. (2002). The Leguminosae of Madagascar. RBG Kew.
  • Gillett, J. B. et al. (1971). Papilionoideae. In: Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Milne-Redhead & Polhill
  • Polhill, R, M. (1990). Legumineuses. In: Flore des Mascareignes, Vol 80. J. Bosser et a
  • Robyns, W. (Ed.) (1954). Flore du Congo Belge, Vol 5; Galegeae, Hedysareae.

Other Data

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Sources

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
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