| Name | Desmodium perplexum B. G. Schubert |
| Authorship | B. G. Schubert |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Desmodium Desvaux |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:78525-2 |
| Citation | 1950 Rhodora 52: 145 |
| Holdings | 368 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Desmodium perplexum B. G. Schubert |
| Identification made in | [no date] (329), 1950 (1), 1956 (9), 1958 (1), 1964 (1), 1980 (1), 1983 (2), 2006 (4), 2010 (5), 2012 (14), 2015 (1) |