Published January 25, 2022 | Version v1
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Desmodium Jiang, Tian & Pan, 2022, s. str.

  • 1. Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Conservation in Southwest China, National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, Yunnan 650224, China & Ningbo Botanical Garden, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315201, China & kevinchiangensis @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5917 - 1846
  • 2. Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Conservation in Southwest China, National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, Yunnan 650224, China & tianbin @ swfu. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2325 - 724 X
  • 3. Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China & Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China & pb @ xtbg. org. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0038 - 9664

Description

Key to Desmodium s. str. taxa naturalized in China:

1. Pods linear, slender; articles narrowly elliptic, ca. 3 × as long as wide......................................................................... D. scorpiurus

1. Pods narrowly oblong; articles orbicular, triangular or nearly so, nearly as long as wide or slightly longer....................................2

2. Both sutures of pods constricted between articles, moniliform...................................................................................... D. tortuosum

2. Adaxial suture of pods straight or somewhat undulate, abaxial suture constricted between articles.................................................3

3. Adaxial surface of leaflet with a silvery plaque along the midvein............................................................................... D. uncinatum

3. Adaxial surface of leaflet without plaque.......................................................................................................................... D. intortum

Notes

Published as part of Jiang, Kai-Wen, Tian, Bin & Pan, Bo, 2022, Legume additions to the flora of China, pp. 1-21 in Phytotaxa 532 (1) on page 4, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.532.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5900839

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Biodiversity

Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Desmodium
Kingdom
Plantae
Order
Fabales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Desvaux
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Desmodium Jiang, Tian & Pan, 2022