| Name | Desmodium adscendens (Swartz) de Candolle |
| Authorship | (Swartz) de Candolle |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Desmodium Desvaux |
| Contains | Desmodium adscendens var. robustum B. G. Schubert |
| Citation | 1825 Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 2: 332 |
| Holdings | 22 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Desmodium adscendens (Swartz) de Candolle |
| Identification made in | [no date] (21), 1994 (1) |