Desmodium laevigatum

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Genus Desmodium

Herbs, undershrubs or shrubs , prostrate to erect . Leaf 1-5-foliolate, leaflets petiolulate , stipels 1 in lateral and 2 in terminal leaflet; stipules free or united , striate and ciliate . Inflorescence terminal or axillary , raceme or panicle or subumbellate. Bract striate and pubescent . Calyx 2-lipped, the upper lobe bifid, the lower 3 toothed or the calyx equally 5-lobed. Corolla exceeding the calyx. Stamens monadelphous or diadelphous , 9+1, anthers uniform . Ovary sessile or stipitate , ovules 2 to many. Fruit sessile or stipitate, transversely jointed , articles variously shaped, glabrous to densely pubescent, hairs straight or hooked .

A genus with about 300-350 species distributed in tropical and temperate areas of the world except Europe, New Zealand.[1]

Physical Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,092 meters (0 to 3,583 feet).[2]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Growth

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade.

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Desmodium laevigatum< /i> (Nutt.) Dc. • Hedysarum laevigatum Nutt. • Meibomia laevigata (Nutt.) Kuntze • Meibomia laevigata (Nutt.)kuntze

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Climbing : Not climbing, Habit: Herb, Lifespan: Perennial

Similar Species

Members of the genus Desmodium

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 83 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

D. adscendens (Matite) · D. affine (Amor Seco) · D. angustifolium (Grass-Leaf Tick Trefoil) · D. arizonicum (Arizona Tick Trefoil) · D. axillare (Zarzabacoa De Monte) · D. axillare var. acutifolium (Zarzabacoa De Monte) · D. axillare var. axillare (Zarzabacoa De Monte) · D. axillare var. stoloniferum (Zarzabacoa De Monte) · D. barbatum (Zarzabacoa Peluda) · D. batocaulon (San Pedro Tick Trefoil) · D. cajanifolium (Tropical Tick Trefoil) · D. canadense (Beggar's Lice) · D. canescens (Hoary Tick-Trefoil) · D. ciliare (Hairy Small-Leaf Tick Trefoil) · D. cinerascens (Spiked Tick Trefoil) · D. cubense (Cuban Tick Trefoil) · D. cuspidatum (Large-Bract Tick Trefoil) · D. cuspidatum var. cuspidatum (Largebract Ticktrefoil) · D. cuspidatum var. longifolium (Largebract Ticktrefoil) · D. discolor (Horse Marmalade) · D. discolor var. discolor (Horse Marmalade) · D. discolor var. villosum (Horse Marmalade) · D. fernaldii (Fernald's Tick-Trefoil) · D. floridanum (Florida Tick Trefoil) · D. glabellum (Dillen Tick-Trefoil) · D. glabrum (Tick Trefoil) · D. glutinosum (Large Tick-Trefoil) · D. grahamii (Graham's Tick Trefoil) · D. gunnii (Southern Tick Trefoil) · D. heterocarpon (Asian Tick Trefoil) · D. heterocarpon birmanicum (Ea Ea) · D. heterocarpon heterocarpon (Asian Ticktrefoil) · D. heterocarpon var. heterocarpon (Carpon Desmodium) · D. heterocarpon var. strigosum (Asian Ticktrefoil) · D. heterophyllum (Senivakacegu) · D. humifusum (Eastern Trailing Tickt Trefoil) · D. illinoense (Iilinois Tickclover) · D. incanum (Cepa De Caballo) · D. incanum var. angustifolium (Kaimi-Clover) · D. incanum var. incanum (Zarzabacoa Comun) · D. intortum (Amor Seco) · D. laevigatum (Smooth Tick Trefoil) · D. lindheimeri (Lindheimer's Tick-Trefoil) · D. lineatum (Sand Tick Trefoil) · D. marilandicum (Maryland Tick-Trefoil) · D. metcalfei (Metcalfe's Tick Trefoil) · D. neomexicanum (New Mexico Tick Trefoil) · D. nudiflorum (Bare-Stemmed Tick-Treefoil) · D. nuttallii (Nuttall Tick-Trefoil) · D. ochroleucum (Cream Tick Trefoil) · D. oojeinense (Sandan) · D. paniculatum (Narrow-Leaf Tick-Trefoil) · D. paniculatum var. dillenii (Panicled Tick-Clover) · D. paniculatum var. epetiolatum (Panicledleaf Ticktrefoil) · D. paniculatum var. paniculatum (Panicled Tick-Clover) · D. pauciflorum (Few-Flower Tick Trefoil) · D. perplexum (Beggar Lice) · D. procumbens (Western Trailing Tick Trefoil) · D. procumbens var. exiguum (Western Trailing Tick Trefoil) · D. procumbens var. procumbens (Western Trailing Ticktrefoil) · D. psilocarpum (Santa Cruz Island Tick Trefoil) · D. psilophyllum (Simple-Leaf Tick Trefoil) · D. ramosissimum (Petit Treff) · D. retinens (Santa Rita Mountain Tick Trefoil) · D. rigidum (Stiff Tick Trefoil) · D. rosei (Rose Tickclover) · D. rotundifolium (Prostrate Tick Trefoil) · D. sandwicense (Chili Clover) · D. scopulorum (Sonoran Tick Trefoil) · D. scorpiurus (Scorpion Tick Trefoil) · D. sericophyllum (Tick Trefoil) · D. sessilifolium (Sessile Tickclover) · D. striatum (Common Lespedeza) · D. strictum (Pine-Barren Tick Trefoil) · D. styracifolium (Coin-Leaf Desmodium) · D. tenuifolium (Slim-Leaf Tick Trefoil) · D. tortuosum (Amor Seco) · D. triflorum (Acaba Pangola) · D. trifolium (Tick Clover) · D. tweedyi (Tweedy's Tick-Trefoil) · D. uncinatum (Amor-De-Velha-Da-Folha-Grauda) · D. viridiflorum (Velvet-Leaf Tick Trefoil) · D. wydlerianum (Wydler's Ticktrefoil)

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Further Reading

• A preliminary catalogue of the flora of New Jersey / compiled by N.L. Britton with the assistance of eminent botanists. New Brunswick, N.J.: Office of the Survey, 1881. url .
• An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions: from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian / by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Hon. Addison Brown. New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1913. url p. 399.
• Annotated list of the ferns and flowering plants of New York state, by Homer D. House. Albany, The University of the state of New York, 1924. url p. 447.
• Annual report of the Regents / Albany: J.B. Lyon, State Printer, 1890-1903. url p. 630.
• Bartonia;proceedings of the Philadelphia botanical club. .. 57 Supplement 1993-1996 Philadelphia, Philadelphia Botanical Club, Academy of Natural Sciences. url p. 13.
• Bibliographical index to North American botany; or, Citations of authorities for all the recorded indigenous and naturalized species of the flora of North America, with a chronological arrangement of the synonymy. by Sereno Watson. Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1878. url p. 217.
• Britton, N. L. (ed.). North American flora. 7 1912 [New York]New York Botanical Garden. url p. 249, p. 889.
• Bulletin - New York State Museum. Albany: New York State Education Dept. url p. 630.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 157, p. 75.
• Bulletin of the scientific laboratories of Denison University. Granville, Ohio: [The University], 1885- url p. 30.
• Catalogue of the phanerogams and ferns of Licking County, Ohio. Granville, Ohio, Press of Granville Times, 1892. url .
• Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1892- url , .
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 21 1919 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 186.
• Erigenia: journal of the Illinois Native Plant Society. Carbondale, Ill.: The Society, 1982- url p. 17.
• First biennial report of the progress of the Geological survey of Michigan, embracing observations on the geology, zoo?logy and botany of the lower peninsula. Made to the governor, December 31, 1860. Lansing, Hosmer & Kerr, printers to the state, 1861. url .
• Flora Peoriana; the vegetation in the climate of middle Illinois. Peoria, Ill., J. W. Franks & Sons, 1887. url , p. 84.
• Flora of Delaware and the Eastern Shore: an annotated list of the ferns and flowering plants of the peninsula of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. [Wilmington]: Society of Natural History of Delaware, 1946. url p. 154.
• Flora of Indiana, by Charles C. Deam. Indianapolis, Wm. B. Burford printing co., contractor for state printing and binding, 1940. url p. 609.
• Flora of the District of Columbia and vicinity. By A.S. Hitchcock and Paul C. Standley, with the assistance of the botanists of Washington. WashingtonGovt. print. off.1919 url p. 186.
• Illinois River Bluffs area assessment / Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Office of Scientific Research and Analysis, [and the] State Geological Survey Division. Springfield, Ill.: Illinois Dept. of Natural Resources, 1998- url p. 161, p. 178.
• Memoir / Ithaca, N.Y. url p. 832.
• National Arboretum contribution. Washington, D.C.: The Arboretum: 1953- url p. 25.
• National list of scientific plant names. [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, 1982- url p. 259.
• Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 138.
• Plant life of Alabama, an account of the distribution, modes of association, and adaptations of the flora of Alabama, together with a systematic catalogue of the plants growing in the state. By Charles Mohr. .. Montgomery, Ala., Brown printing co., 1901. url p. 573.
• Plant life of Alabama. An account of the distribution, modes of association, and adaptations of the flora of Alabama, together with a systematic catalogue of the plants growing in the state. Prepared in cooperationwith the Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1901. url .
• Plants of Mississippi: a list of flowering plants and ferns / by E.N. Lowe. [Jackson, Miss.]: Mississippi State Geological Survey, 1921. url p. 174.
• Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science. Indianapolis, Ind.[s.n.] url p. 190, p. 190, p. 206, p. 206.
• Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio. Columbus, Nevins & Myers, state printers, 1873-93. url .
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 15 1878 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 217.
• Studies of the vegetation of Missouri. .. / By Julian A. Steyermark. 9 1940 [Chicago, 1940- url p. 406.
• The American botanist and florist: including lessons in the structure, life, and growth of plants: together with a simple analytical flora, descriptive of the native and cultivated plants growing in the Atlantic division of the Americ by Alphonso Wood. New York: A. S. Barnes, 1877, c1870. url p. 88.
• The Leguminosae of Illinois. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1953. url p. 72.
• The crane-flies of New York. [Ithaca]1919-1920. url p. 832.
• The flora of Tennessee and a philosophy of botany, respectfully dedicated to the citizens of Tennessee Nashvillle, Press of Gospel Advocate Publishing Company, 1901. url .
• The flora of the town of Southold, Long Island, and Gardiner's Island / New York: Torrey Botanical Club, 1914? url p. 29.
• Torreya. Burlington, Vt., Torrey Botanical Club, 1901-1945. url p. 110, p. 186.
• Transactions of the Kentucky Academy of Science. [Lexington, Ky.]Kentucky Academy of Science, 1923-1997. url p. 186, p. 197, p. 46, p. 48.
• Tulane studies in zoology and botany. 24 1983 New Orleans: Tulane University, [1968- url p. 122.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 29, 2008:

• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
• University of Alabama Biodiversity and Systematics, Herbarium

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2650602
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-11338
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13638689
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:491850-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 436075
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 25806
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDFAB1D0R0
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: DELA2
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 34841

Footnotes

1. "Desmodium". in Flora of Pakistan Page 346. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Mean = 174.570 meters (572.736 feet), Standard Deviation = 163.380 based on 389 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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