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Greenleaf desmodium and also as beggarli
Desmodium intortum
About
Desmodium intortum, known as greenleaf desmodium and also as beggarlice along with other members of its genus, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Desmodium, native to Mexico, Central America, northern South America, the Galápagos, Haiti and Jamaica. A nitrogen-fixing fodder crop, it has been introduced to the rest of the world's tropics, including Africa, India, Australia, New Guinea and Taiwan
- Family
- Fabaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Desmodium intortum
- Slug
- desmodium-intortum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Desmodium
- Species
- intortum
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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