Taxon:
Desmodium uncinatum (Jacq.) DC.
Summary
Place of publication:
Prodr. 2:331. 1825
Verified:
03/01/1987
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Burkart, A. E., ed. 1969-. Flora ilustrada de Entre Rios.
- Burkart, A. E. 1952. Las leguminosas Argentinas - silvestres y cultivadas, ed. 2.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). URL: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Desmodium+uncinatum&quantity=1
- Kretschmer, A. E. 1998. pers. comm. Note: re. common names
- Lewis, G. P. 1987. Legumes of Bahia
- Macbride, J. F. et al., eds. 1936-. Flora of Peru Note: 1936-1971; new ser. 1980-
- Oliveira, M. de L. A. A. de. 1983. Estudo taxonômico do gênero Desmodium Desv. (Leguminosae, Faboideae, Desmodieae). Iheringia, Bot. 31:49.
- Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
- 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 4:116-118. URL: http://proseanet.org
- Thulin, M. 1983. Leguminosae of Ethiopia. Opera Bot. 68:1-223. Note: cult.
- Verdcourt, B. 1979. A manual of New Guinea legumes. Note: introduced
- Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943-1980. Flora of Panama. Note: mentions
Common names
English
silverleaf desmodium – Spanish tick-clover – German
spanischer Klee – Spanish
desmodio plateado – pega pega –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | Venezuela | | w. |
1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | | subtropical |
1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Paraguay | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Uruguay | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Bolivia | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Peru | | |
4 | Naturalized | | | | | natzd. elsewhere |
Native
Southern America
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NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Venezuela (w.)
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BRAZIL:
Brazil
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WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Bolivia, Peru
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SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Argentina (subtropical), Paraguay, Uruguay
Naturalized
(natzd. elsewhere)
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Animal food | forage | | Burkart, A. E., ed. 1969-. Flora ilustrada de Entre Rios. |