Desmodium
Belongs within: Desmodieae.
Desmodium, tick clovers, is a genus of leguminous herbs and shrubs found in warmer parts of the world, a number of which have seeds covered in tiny hooked hairs that stick to animal skins or clothes for dispersal.
Characters (from Flora of China): Herbs, subshrubs, or shrubs. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate or 1-foliolate by reduction of lateral leaflets, stipulate, stipellate. Flowers usually smaller, in racemes or panicles, axillary or terminal, rarely solitary or binate in leaf axils. Bracts persistent or early deciduous; bracteoles present or absent. Calyx campanulate, 4- or 5-lobed, bilabiate; upper 2 lobes connate for all or most of length, entire or 2-toothed at apex, lower lobes free, longest. Corolla white, green-white, pink, purple, or violet; standard elliptic or obovate to nearly orbicular; wings more or less adherent to keel, wholly clawed. Stamens diadelphous (9+1), rarely monadelphous. Ovary usually sessile, with several to many ovules. Legume compressed, usually indehiscent, transversely segmented, upper (adaxial) suture slightly constricted or straight, lower (abaxial) one constricted; articles mostly ellipsoidal to quadrangular. Cotyledons epigeous.
Desmodium
|--D. axillare J87
|--D. barbatum CP13
|--D. brownii LK14
|--D. diffusum P03
|--D. filiforme LK14
|--D. gangeticum P03
|--D. glareosum LK14
|--D. hannii LK14
|--D. heterocarpon LK14
| |--D. h. var. heterocarpon LK14
| `--D. h. var. strigosum LK14
|--D. incanum C55
|--D. intortum MM96
|--D. muelleri LK14
|--D. ormocarpoides B00
|--D. ovalifolium S00
|--D. paniculatum W10
|--D. pulchellum P03
|--D. pullenii LK14
|--D. pycnotrichum LK14
|--D. repandum BMM99
|--D. scorpiurus (Swartz) Desvaux 1813 [=Hedysarum scorpiurus Swartz 1788] GB02
|--D. tortuosum ACW01
|--D. trichostachyum LK14
|--D. triflorum P03 [=Hedysarum triflorum C55; incl. Nicolsonia reptans C55]
|--D. umbellatum P88
|--D. velutinum P03
`--D. zonatum Miq. 1855 [=Meiobomia zonatum (Miq.) Kuntze 1891] SR07
*Type species of generic name indicated
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