Pleurolobus

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Fabales

Familia: Fabaceae
Subfamilia: Faboideae
Tribus: Desmodieae
Subtribus: Desmodiinae
Genus: Pleurolobus
Species: P. flexuosus – P. gangeticus – P. lobatus – P. pryonii – P. salicifolius – P. tanganyikensis
Source(s) of checklist:
Name

Pleurolobus J.St.-Hil., Nouv. Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris 3: 192 (1812) emend. H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi, J. Jap. Bot. 93(3): 184. (2018)

Type species: Pleurolobus gangeticus (L.) J.St.-Hil. ex H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi, J. Jap. Bot. 93(3): 184. (2018)

Note: Pleurolobus is resurrected under ICN Art. 14.6 to accommodate combinations from Desmodium sect. Heteroloma Benth., Bot. Voy. Sulphur [Bentham] 3: 83 (1844) (Ohashi & Ohashi, 2018).
Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Continental: Tropical & Subtropical Old World to Australia
Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Caroline Is., Central African Repu, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Congo, East Himalaya, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maldives, Mali, Maluku, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Pakistan, Philippines, Queensland, Rwanda, Réunion, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sumatera, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Extinct in:
Mauritius
Introduced into:
Cook Is., Fiji, Jamaica, Society Is., Trinidad-Tobago

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References
Primary references

Saint-Hilaire, J.H.J., 1812. Nouveau Bulletin des Sciences, Publie par la Société Philomatique de Paris 3: 192
Ohashi, K., Ohashi, H., Nemoto, T., Ikeda, T., Izumi, H., Kobayashi, H., Muragaki, H., Nata, K., Sato, N. & Suzuki, M. 2018. Phylogenetic analyses for a new classification of the Desmodium group of Leguminosae tribe Desmodieae. Journal of Japanese Botany [Shokubutsu Kenkyu Zasshi] 93(3): 165-189. ResearchGate Reference page. :

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Pleurolobus in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Nov 18. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Pleurolobus. Published online. Accessed: Nov 18 2020.
Tropicos.org 2020. Pleurolobus. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Nov 18.
Hassler, M. 2020. Pleurolobus. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2020. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Nov 18. Reference page. as Desmodium as ILDIS (2014)