a genus of flowering plant, with usually unobtrusive flowers; many members are considered weeds, such as the beggarweed (Desmodium tortuosum)
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Desmodium was the most representative with five species.
Valquíria Ferreira Dutra, Flávia Cristina Pinto Garcia, Haroldo Cavalcante de Lima 2009, 'Papilionoideae (Leguminosae) nos campos rupestres do Parque Estadual do Itacolomi,MG, Brasil Papilionoideae (Leguminosae) in the campos rupestres of Itacolomi StatePark, Minas Gerais State, Brazil', Acta Botânica Brasílicahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-33062009000100018. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Desmodium plots out-yielded both natural fallow and soybean plots.
Nguimgo, BAK., Yemefack, M., Kaho, F., Zonkeng, CG. 2004, 'The Effect of Short Rotation Desmodium distortum Planted Fallow on the Productivityof Ultisols in Centre Cameroon', Tropiculturahttp://www.tropicultura.org/text/v22n2/49.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)