Desmodium uncinatum (Jacquin 1798: 298) Candolle (1825: 331)

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 : 257

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.501.2.2

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scientific name

Desmodium uncinatum (Jacquin 1798: 298) Candolle (1825: 331)
status

 

23. Desmodium uncinatum (Jacquin 1798: 298) Candolle (1825: 331) View in CoL . ( Fig. 5C View FIGURE 5 )

Distribution: It occurs from Central America to Argentina ( Vanni 2001); in Brazil it occurs in states of the South, Southeast, Northeast and Central-west regions ( Flora do Brasil 2020). In ParNa Iguaçu it has been collected but without locality data.

Reproductive period: It flowers and fruits throughout the year ( Lima et al. 2014). In ParNa Iguaçu it was collected with flowers and fruits in May.

Diagnostic characteristics: Prostrate subshrubs with pinnate, trifoliolate leaves, central spots on the adaxial surface of the leaflets, flowers more than 7 mm long and triangular articles aid in the identification of D. uncinatum .

Conservation: Native-NE

Selected examined material: BRAZIL. Paraná: Parque Nacional do Iguaçu , 9 May 1949, (fl., fr.), J. Falcão 155 ( RB) .

RB

Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Fabales

Family

Fabaceae

Genus

Desmodium

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