Taxon:
Desmodium discolor Vogel
Summary
Place of publication:
Linnaea 12:103. 1838
Verified:
02/21/1987
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Burkart, A. E. Las leguminosas Argentinas - silvestres y cultivadas, ed. 2. 1952
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). Note: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Desmodium+discolor&quantity=1
- Lewis, G. P. Legumes of Bahia. 1987
- National Academy of Sciences. Tropical legumes: resources for the future. 1979
- Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
- Smith, A. C. Flora vitiensis nova. 1979-1991 Note: mentions
Common names
English
horse marmalade – Spanish
mermelada de caballo –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | Misiones | |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | also cult. |
Native
Southern America
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BRAZIL:
Brazil
-
SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Argentina [Misiones]
Cultivated
(also cult.)
Economic Uses
Animal food
Environmental
soil improver (fide Trop Leg) –