| Name | Desmodium elegans de Candolle |
| Authorship | de Candolle |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Desmodium Desvaux |
| Contains | Desmodium elegans subsp. callianthum (Franchet) H. Ohashi Desmodium elegans var. elegans Desmodium elegans var. handelii (Schindler) H. Ohashi Desmodium elegans var. wolohoense (Schindler) H. Ohashi |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:491725-1 |
| Citation | 1825 Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris) 4: 100 |
| Holdings | 142 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Desmodium elegans de Candolle |
| Identification made in | [no date] (139), 1932 (1), 2015 (1), 2025 (1) |