Desmodium adscendens (Swartz 1788: 106) Candolle 1825: 332

Rauber, Cristiane Ritter, Lima, Laura Cristina Pires, Caxambu, Marcelo Galeazzi & Temponi, Lívia Godinho, 2021, Synopsis of Leguminosae from Iguaçu National Park, Paraná, Brazil, Phytotaxa 501 (2), pp. 245-280 : 256

20. Desmodium adscendens (Swartz 1788: 106) Candolle 1825: 332 . ( Fig. 5B )

Distribution: It occurs in Asia, Africa and the Americas where it occurs from Mexico to Argentina ( Vanni 2001); in Brazil it occurs throughout the country with the exception of the Distrito Federal ( Flora do Brasil 2020). In ParNa Iguaçu it occurs in the Foz do Iguaçu area.

Reproductive period: According to Lima et al. (2014) it flowers and fruits throughout the year. In ParNa Iguaçu it was found in flower in December and February.

Diagnostic characteristics: Prostrate subshrubs with pinnate, trifoliolate leaves, lanceolate stipules that are not concrescent, whitish-lilac flowers, loment with 2–5 oblong articles.

Conservation: Naturalized-NE.

Selected examined material: BRAZIL. Paraná: Area 3, Foz do Iguaçu , 13 December 2018, (fl.), M.G. Caxambu 8813 ( HCF) .

Figures

FIGURE 5. A: Dalbergia frutescens, branch with fruit; B: Desmodium adscendens, branch with fruit; C: Desmodium uncinatum, branch with fruit; D: Enterolobium contortisiliquum, branch with fruit; E and F: Erythrina falcata: E: branch; F: glandular stipules; G: Holocalyx balansae, fruit; H: Indigofera suffruticosa, branch with fruit; I: Inga marginata, branch with inflorescence; J: Machaerium nyctitans, stem with prickles.