Desmodium procumbens (Mill.) Hitchc. (Rep. (Annual) Missouri Bot. Gard. 4: 76. 1893.) Localities: West Indies (native), Lesser Antilles (native) [Antigua, Grenada, Barbados, the Grenadines, Martinique, St. Barthelemy, St. Lucia, St. Vincent], Greater Antilles [Jamaica (native), Hispaniola (native)[ Dominican Republic, Gonave, Haiti,], Puerto Rico (native)[ Mona, Vieques], Virgin Islands (native) (Guana Islands, St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas, Tortola, ) ], North America (native), Mexico (native), Central America (native), South America (native), Common Names: Collant (L. Antilles), Cousin (L. Antilles), Trèfle (L. Antilles), Zarzabacoa espiral (Puerto Rico), Synonyms: Desmodium spirale (Sw.) DC. (Prodr. 2: 332. 1825.), Desmodium tenuiculum DC. (Prodr. 2: 333. 1825.), Hedysarum procumbens Mill. (Gard. Dict., ed. 8. 1768.), Hedysarum spirale Sw. (Prodr. 107. 1788.), Meibomia procumbens (Mill.) Britton (In N.L. Britton & P. Wilson, Sci. Surv. Porto Rico & Virgin Islands 5: 404. 1924.), Meibomia spiralis (Sw.) Kuntze (Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 197. 1891.), Citations:1). Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. et al. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581. 2). Adams, C.D. 1972. Flowering Plants of Jamaica. University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. 848 pp. 3). Barker, H.D. and W.S. Dardeau. 1930. La Flore d'Haiti. Port-au-Prince. 456 pp. 4). Bello Espinosa, D. 1883. Apuntes para la flora de Puerto Rico. Segunda parte. Anal. Soc. Española de Hist. Nat. 12: 103-130. 5). Britton, N.L. and P. Wilson. 1923-1926. Botany of Porto Rico and Virgin Islands. Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and Virgin Islands. New York Academy of Sciences, New York. 6). Capdevila, M. B. 1994. A taxonomic revision of the genus Desmodium Desv. (Leguminosae) for Flora of Ecuador. University of Aarhus, Denmark: 1-44 (unpublished thesis). 7). Flora of Trinidad and Tobago: This flora was published in many parts with many authors. There is no overall editor. R. O. Williams was author of the first treatment and of many others. 8). Howard, R.A. 1974-1989. Flora of the Lesser Antilles. Vols. 1-6. Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. 9). Hoyos F., J. 1985. Flora de la isla de Margarita, Venezuela. Caracas, Venezuela. 10). International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS). 2005-2010. School of Plant Sciences, University of Reading, United Kingdom. http//www.ildis.org 11). Liogier, A.H. 1982-2000. La flora de la Española. Univ. Central de Este, San Pedro de Macoris. Taller, República Dominicana. 12). Liogier, A.H. 1985-1997. Descriptive Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands. Spermatophyta. Vols. 1-5. Editorial Universitaria, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. 13). Liogier, A.H. and L.F. Martorell. 1982. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis. Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. 14). Otero, J.I., R.A. Toro and Pagán de Otero. 1945. Catalogo de los nombres vulgares y científicos de algunas plantas puertorriqueñas. 2nd. ed. Universidad de Puerto Rico. 15). Stahl, A. 1883-1888. Estudios sobre la flora de Puerto-Rico. Folleto I-VI. Tip. El Asimilista, San Juan (Folleto I); Tip. González and Cía, San Juan (Folleto II-VI). Puerto Rico. 16). Tropicos.org. 2008. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis. Website: www.tropicos.org 17). Urban, I. 1898-1928. Symbolae Antillanae, Vol. 1-9. Berlin, Leipzig, Germany. Last edited 15 Apr 09 |