Desmodium hirtum Guill. & Perr.

This name was accepted following an alternative taxonomy by these authorities:

• Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (eds.) (2006). Flore Analytique du Bénin: 1-1034. Backhuys Publishers. [Cited as Desmodium hirtum.]
• Boudet, G., Lebrun, J.P. & Demange, R. (1986). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali: 1-465. Etudes d'Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux. [Cited as Desmodium hirtum.]
• Boulvert, Y. (1977). Catalogue de la Flore de Centrafrique 2(1): 1-85. ORSTROM, Bangui. [Cited as Desmodium hirtum.]
• Catarino, L., Martins, E.S., Diniz, M.A. & Pinto-Basto, M.F. (2006). Check-list da flora vascular do parque natural das Lagos de Cufada (Guiné-Bissau). Garcia de Orta, Série de Botânica 17: 97-141. [Cited as Desmodium hirtum.]
• Du Puy, D.J., Labat, N.-N., Rabevohitra, R., Villiers, J.-F., Bosser, J. & Moat, J. (2002). The Leguminosae of Madagascar: 1-737. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Desmodium hirtum.]
• Govaerts, R. (2000). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS D: 1-30141. [Cited as Desmodium hirtum .]
• Lebrun, J.P., Toutain, B., Gaston, A. & Boudet, G. (1991). Catalogue des Plantes Vasculaires du Burkina Faso: 1-341. Institut d' Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, Maisons Alfort. [Cited as Desmodium hirtum.]
• Lock, J.M. (1989). Legumes of Africa a check-List: 1-619. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Desmodium hirtum.]
• Peyre de Fabregues, B. & Lebrun, J.-P. (1976). Catalogue des Plantes Vascularies du Niger: 1-433. Institut d' Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, Maisons Alfort. [Cited as Desmodium hirtum.]
• Sita, P. & Moutsambote, J.-M. (2005). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Congo, ed. sept. 2005: 1-158. ORSTOM, Centre de Brazzaville. [Cited as Desmodium hirtum.]
• Verdcourt, B. (2000). Flora Zambesiaca 3(6): 1-175. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Desmodium hirtum.]

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• Bak. f. Leg. Trop. Afr. 2: 329, partly
• F.W.T.A., ed. 1, 1: 418, partly
• Fl. Congo Belge 5: 186, fig. 11 B.
• Schubert in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 22: 287 (1952)
• —F.T.A. 2: 163, partly

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• Guill. & Perr. in Fl. Seneg. Tent.: 209 (1832).
• Hepper in Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 1: 585 (1958).
• Schubert in Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de l'État a Bruxelles 22: 287, 288 (1952)
• Schubert in Flore du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi, 5: 186, fig. 11/B (1954).

International Legume Database and Information Service

• Dalziel, J. M. (1937). The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa
• Du Puy, D. J. et al. (2002). The Leguminosae of Madagascar. RBG Kew.
• Gillett, J. B. et al. (1971). Papilionoideae. In: Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Milne-Redhead & Polhill