Desmodium viridiflorum (L.)

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part H), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 557-585 : 563

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scientific name	Desmodium viridiflorum (L.)
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Hedysarum viridiflorum Linnaeus View in CoL , Species Plantarum 2: 748. 1753.

"Habitat in Virginia." RCN: 5518.

Type not designated.

Original material: Clayton 190 (BM).

Current name: Desmodium viridiflorum (L.) View in CoL DC. ( Fabaceae : Faboideae ).

Note: Although Britton (in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 21: 114. 1894) regarded Clayton 190 (BM) as "the specimen … on which Linnaeus founded the species", this is not accepted as equivalent to the use of “type”.