Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1825), Leguminosae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 2: 327 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Hedysarum gangeticum L. legitimate

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 232 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 40 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 139 [secondary reference]

Knaap-van Meeuwen, M.S. (1962), Preliminary revisions of some genera of Malaysian Papilionaceae V - a census of the genus Desmodium. Reinwardtia 6(3): 249-250 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 240 [secondary reference]

Ohashi, H. (15 February 1973), The Asiatic species of Desmodium and its allied genera (Leguminosae). Ginkgoana, contributions to the flora of Asia and the Pacific Region 1: 184-188 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 120 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 308, 312, Fig. 51J [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Hedysarum gangeticum L. legitimate

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 33 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.L. & James, T.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Desmodium. Flora of New South Wales 2: 411 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Papilionaceae (Fabaceae). Flora of the Kimberley Region: 395-396, Fig. 119C [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 70-71, Fig. 21 [secondary reference]

Pedley, L. (25 January 1999), Desmodium Desv. (Fabaceae) and related genera in Australia: a taxonomic revision. Austrobaileya 5(2): 249, map 36 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Meibomia gangetica (L.) Kuntze legitimate

Gardner, C.L., James, T.A. & Murray, L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Desmodium. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 577 [secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. (2003), Australian tropical rain forest plants. Trees, Shrubs and Vines: Code 3545 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 208 [secondary reference]

Ohashi, H. (2004), Taxonomy and distribution of Desmodium and related genera (Leguminosae) in Malesia (I). Journal of Japanese Botany 79(2): 122, 124 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Hedysarum gangeticum L. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Hedysarum gangeticum L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Meibomia gangetica (L.) Kuntze legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW

Ohashi, K., Ohashi, H., Nemoto, T., Ikeda, T., Izuma, H., Kobayashi, H., Muragaki, H., Nata, K., Sato, N. & Suzuki, M. (2018), Phylogenetic analyses for a new classification of the Desmodium group of Leguminosae Tribe Desmodieae. Journal of Japanese Botany 93(3): 184 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Pleurolobus gangeticus (L.) J.St.-Hil. legitimate

Ho, B.C., Yeo, R.S.W. & Chen, L.M.J. (2021), A review of Desmodium s.l. (Leguminosae, subfamily Papilionoideae) in Singapore and nomenclature updates in the Malay Peninsula. The Gardens' Bulletin, Singapore 73(1): 54 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Pleurolobus gangeticus (L.) J.St.-Hil. legitimate

Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (8 March 2022), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2021. Nuytsia 33: 6 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Pleurolobus gangeticus (L.) J.St.-Hil. legitimate

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