Desmodium axillare (Sw.) DC. Desmodium axillare (Sw.) DC., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 2: 333. 1825 sec. Stevens & al. 2001≡Hedysarum axillare Sw., Prodr. [O. P. Swartz] 107. 1788 syn. sec. Stevens & al. 2001