| Name | Desmodium velutinum de Candolle |
| Authorship | de Candolle |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Desmodium Desvaux |
| Contains | Desmodium velutinum subsp. longibracteatum (Schindler) H. Ohashi |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:492236-1 |
| Holdings | 124 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Desmodium velutinum de Candolle |
| Identification made in | [no date] (124) |