| Name | Desmodium canescens (Linnaeus) de Candolle |
| Authorship | (Linnaeus) de Candolle |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Desmodium Desvaux |
| Contains | Desmodium canescens f. albinum Fernald |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1200466-2 |
| Holdings | 167 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Desmodium canescens (Linnaeus) de Candolle |
| Identification made in | [no date] (152), 1931 (1), 1947 (1), 1948 (1), 1956 (3), 1958 (1), 2010 (8) |