| Name | Desmodium ciliare (Muhlenberg ex Willdenow) de Candolle | 
| Authorship | (Muhlenberg ex Willdenow) de Candolle | 
| Rank | Species | 
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg | 
| Placed in | Desmodium Desvaux | 
| Contains | Desmodium ciliare var. lancifolium Fernald & B. G. Schubert | 
| Holdings | 204 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Desmodium ciliare (Muhlenberg ex Willdenow) de Candolle | 
| Identification made in | [no date] (164), 1942 (1), 1948 (2), 1956 (10), 1958 (1), 1962 (17), 1979 (1), 1987 (1), 1988 (1), 2012 (6) |