| Name | Desmodium elegans var. elegans |
| Authorship | |
| Rank | Variety |
| NomenclaturalStatus | Unknown |
| Placed in | Desmodium elegans de Candolle |
| Citation | 1973 Ginkgoana 1: 110 |
| Holdings | 2 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Desmodium elegans var. elegans |
| Identification made in | [no date] (2) |