Desmodium laxiflorum DC.

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SPECIES DLANCOANAE'
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Hlppoerepis oomosa Blanco,
non Linn.
Desmodium dirersifolium
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Hippocrepis comosa Blanco PL Filip. (1837) 584, non Linn.=Desmodium
diversifolium Blancod. c. ed. 2 (1845) 408; ed. 3, 2 (1879) 384, non
DC. = DESMODIUM LAXIFLORUM DC.
This species was reduced by Feraandez-Villar to Desmodium
gangeticum DC., in which, in part, he was perhaps correct.
Blanco describes his plant as having sometimes simple leaves,
but more often 3-foliolate ones. There is nothing in the descrip-
tion that definitely determines just what form he intended, but
as D. laxiflorum DC. is common and widely distributed in the
Philippines at low altitudes, and as there is nothing in Blanco’s
description that does not agree with the species, except the
statement “hojas unas veces simples,” the present identification
of Blanco’s species is assumed. The form with simple leaves
included by Blanco was proV.bly Desmodium gangeticum DC.
Illustrative specimen from Antipolo, Rizal Province, Luzon,
November, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 175).
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