| Name | Desmodium laxum de Candolle |
| Authorship | de Candolle |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Desmodium Desvaux |
| Contains | Desmodium laxum subsp. laterale (Schindler) H. Ohashi Desmodium laxum subsp. laxum Desmodium laxum subsp. leptopus (A. Gray ex Bentham) H. Ohashi |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:491863-1 |
| Citation | 1825 Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris) 4: 102 |
| Holdings | 28 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Desmodium laxum de Candolle |
| Identification made in | [no date] (28) |