hookerianum or Hylodesmum laxum, depending on the taxonomic authority. Selected species Species include: Desmodium acanthocladum F.Muell. Desmodium canadense (L.) DC. – showy tick-trefoil, Canadian tick-trefoil Desmodium canescens (L.) DC. – hoary tick-trefoil Desmodium ciliare (Muhl.) DC. – hairy small-leaved tick-trefoil Desmodium cuspidatum (Muhl.) Loudon – toothed tick-trefoil, large-bracted tick-trefoil Desmodium glabellum (Michx.) DC. Desmodium heterocarpon (Michx.) DC. – Asian tick-trefoil Desmodium × humifusum (Muhl. ex Bigelow) Beck Desmodium illinoense A.Gray – Illinois tick-trefoil Desmodium incanum (Sw.) DC. – creeping beggarweed, Spanish tick-trefoil, Kaimi clover Desmodium intortum Greenleaf desmodium, kuru vine, beggarlice, tick clovers Desmodium lineatum (Michx.) DC. – linear-leaved tick-trefoil Desmodium marilandicum (L.) DC. – smooth small-leaved tick-trefoil Desmodium ospriostreblum Chiov. Desmodium paniculatum (L.) DC. – panicled tick-trefoil Desmodium perplexum B.G.Schub. – perplexed tick-trefoil Desmodium rhytidophyllum F.Muell. ex Benth. Desmodium rotundifolium DC. – round-leaved tick-trefoil, dollar leaf Desmodium triflorum (L.) DC. Desmodium tweedyi Britton – Tweedy's tick-trefoil Desmodium uncinatum (Jacq.) DC.– silver-leaved tick-trefoil, silverleaf Desmodium varians (Labill.) G.Don Formerly placed here Codariocalyx motorius – telegraph plant (as D. gyrans, D. motorium, D. roylei) Hylodesmum laxum (as D. laxum DC.) Hylodesmum laxum ssp. laxum (as D. austro-japonense, D. bambusetorum, D. gardneri auct. non Benth., D. laxiflorum sensu Miq., D. laxum var. kiusianum, D. laxum ssp. laxum, D. podocarpum auct. non DC. non Hook. & Arn., D. podocarpum DC. var. gardneri sensu Bedd., D. podocarpum DC. var. laxum) Hylodesmum leptopus (as D. gardneri Benth., D. laxum auct. non DC., D. laxum ssp. leptopus, D. leptopus, D. tashiroi) Hylodesmum podocarpum (as D. podocarpum DC., D. podocarpum DC. var. indicum, D. podocarpum DC. var. japonicum) Hylodesmum podocarpum ssp. oxyphyllum (as D. fallax var. mandshuricum, D. japonicum, D. mandshuricum, D. oxyphyllum DC., D. podocarpum DC. var. mandshuricum, D. podocarpum DC. ssp./var. oxyphyllum, D. podocarpum DC. var. polyphyllum, D. podocarpum DC. var. typicum, D. racemosum) Lespedeza thunbergii (as D. formosum, D. thunbergii) Lespedeza thunbergii var. thunbergii (as D. penduliflorum Oudem.) Ohwia caudata (as D. caudatum) Phyllodium pulchellum (as D. pulchellum) Dendrolobium umbellatum (as D. umbellatum (L.) Benth. Dendrolobium triangulare (as D. Desmodium umbellatum Moritz. References (2005): Genus Desmodium. Version 10.01, November 2005. Retrieved 2007-DEC-17. External links Trout, K. (2002). Trout’s Notes on the Genus Desmodium. Mydriatic Productions. Better Days Publishing. Forages Fabaceae genera