Table 1 Distribution of various Desmodium species in the world and Gujarat (India)

1

Desmodium adscendens (Sw) DC

Center province, Southern Uganda, Camaroon, Eastern Nicaragua, Southern Uganda, Eastern Nicaragua, West-Central Africa

[7,8,9,10,11,12,13]

2

Desmodium barbatum (L) Benth,

Zimbabwe and South Africa

[14]

3

Desmodium Canum (J.F.Gmelin) Schinzand Thell. Syn. Desmodium incanum DC

Eastern Cuba and Eastern Nicaragua

[11, 15]

4

Desmodium Cajanifolium (Kunth) DC

Popoluca, Mexico, Panama

[16]

5

Desmodium gangeticum (L) DC

Uganda, SatpudaHills, Assam, Uttar Pradesh-Gujarat (India)

[6, 18,19,20,21, 33]

6

Desmodium heterophyllum (Willd.) DC

West Java Indonesia

[22]

7

Desmodium macrophyllum Desv. And Desv. wild

Yunnan Province, China

[23]

8

Desmodium molliculum DC

Peru, Ecuador

[24, 25]

9

Desmodium mollicum (HBK) DC

Northeastern Peru

[26]

10

Desmodium oojeinense (Roxb)

Dadeldhura, Nepal, Gujarat

[6, 27]

11

Desmodium ramosissimum G. Don

Cameroon

[28]

12

Desmodium styracifolium Merr

Guangdong, China

[29]

13

Desmodium triangulare (Retz)

Tamil Nadu, Gujarat (India)

[6, 30, 33]

14

Desmodium triflorum (L.) DC

Bulamogi, Uganda, Gujarat (India)

[6, 18, 33]

15

Desmodium triquetrum (L.) DC

Central Laos

[31]

16

Desmodium tortuosum (Sw.) DC

Bulamogi, Uganda Ecuador

[18, 25]

17

Desmodium velutinum (Willd.) DC

Bulamogi, Uganda, Northern Nigeria, Gujarat (India)

[6, 18, 32, 33]

18

Desmodium alysicarpoides

Gujarat (India)

[6, 33]

19

Desnodium dichotomum

20

Desmodium dolabriforme

21

Desmodium heterocapon

22

Desmodium laxiflorum

23

Desmodium neomexicanum

24

Desmodium reniflolium

25

Desmodium scorpius

26

Desmodium styracifolium

India

[33]