Desmodium sandwicense E. Mey. GRIN-Global

Taxon: Desmodium sandwicense E. Mey.

Summary

Genus:

Desmodium

Family:

Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)

Subfamily:

Faboideae

Tribe:

Desmodieae

Subtribe:

Desmodiinae

Nomen number:

13672

Place of publication:

Cat. sem. horti regiomont. 4. 1850 (Linnaea 24:230. 1851)

Verified:

06/26/1989 ARS Systematic Botanists.

Accessions:

31 (31 active, 31 available) in Australian Pastures Genebank. (Map it)

Other conspecific taxa

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Homotypic Synonym(s)

Desmodium limense Hook. var. sandwicense (E. Mey.) Schindl. ex O. N. Allen & E. K. Allen, nom. nud.

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Reference(s)

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
Fosberg, F. R. 1968. Critical notes on Pacific Island plants part 2. Micronesica 4:257.
Moerman, D. Native American ethnobotany, ed. 5. 1998
Ohashi, H. 1988. Desmodium (Leguminosae) of the Hawaiian islands. Sci. Rep. Tohoku Imp. Univ., Ser. 4, Biol. 39:183.
Pinchbeck, B. R. et al. 1980. Genetic studies of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in Spanish clover (Desmodium sandwicense). Canad. J. Pl. Sci. 60(2):509-518.

Common names

English
Hawaiian tick trefoil –

Distribution

order_code	Status	Continent	Subcontinent	Country	State
4	Naturalized	Pacific	North-Central Pacific	U.S. Outlying Islands	Midway Islands
4	Naturalized	Pacific	North-Central Pacific	United States	Hawaii
4	Naturalized	Pacific	South-Central Pacific	French Polynesia	Marquesas Islands
4	Naturalized	Pacific	Southwestern Pacific	Tonga
6	Other

Naturalized
Pacific

NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: U.S. Outlying Islands [Midway Islands], United States [Hawaii]
SOUTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: French Polynesia [Marquesas Islands]
SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Tonga

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Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://apg.pir.sa.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=13672. Accessed 4 September 2025.