{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}} {{Speciesbox |image=Desmodium intortum (25627687435).jpg |image_caption=Flowerhead |image2=Starr-141124-2773-Desmodium intortum-habit-Hawea Pl Olinda-Maui (25248953965).jpg |image2_caption=In Hawaii |genus=Desmodium |species=intortum |authority=(Mill.) Urb.<ref>Symb. Antill. 8: 292 (1920)</ref> |synonyms_ref=<ref name="134286-3" /> |synonyms={{collapsible list| *''Desmodium adhaesivum'' <small>Schltdl.</small> *''Desmodium aparines'' <small>(Link) DC.</small> *''Desmodium intortum'' var. ''apiculatum'' <small>B.G.Schub.</small> *''Desmodium nantouensis'' <small>Y.C.Liu & F.Y.Lu</small> *''Desmodium sonorae'' <small>A.Gray</small> *''Desmodium trigonum'' <small>(Sw.) DC.</small> *''Hedysarum aparines'' <small>Link</small> *''Hedysarum intortum'' <small>Mill.</small> *''Hedysarum trigonum'' <small>Sw.</small> *''Meibomia adhaesiva'' <small>(Schltdl.) Kuntze</small> *''Meibomia aparines'' <small>(Link) Schindl.</small> *''Meibomia balaensis'' <small>Schindl.</small> *''Meibomia intorta'' <small>(Mill.) S.F.Blake</small> *''Meibomia sonorae'' <small>(A.Gray) Kuntze</small> *''Meibomia trigona'' <small>Gandara</small> }}}}
'''''Desmodium intortum''''', known as '''greenleaf desmodium''' and also as '''beggarlice''' along with other members of its genus, is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''Desmodium'', native to Mexico, Central America, northern South America, the Galápagos, Haiti and Jamaica. A nitrogen-fixing fodder crop, it has been introduced to the rest of the world's tropics, including Africa, India, Australia, New Guinea and Taiwan.<ref name="134286-3" >{{cite web |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:134286-3 |title=''Desmodium intortum'' L. |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2017 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=15 December 2020 }}</ref>
''Desmodium intortum'' is used in push–pull agricultural pest management since it contains potent secondary metabolites that are released into the soil and aerially. Inter-cropped in maize and sorghum fields, it repels ''Chilo partellus'', a stem-boring grass moth, and suppresses witchweeds, including Asiatic witchweed (''Striga asiatica'') and purple witchweed (''S. hermonthica'').<ref name="TPE">{{cite encyclopedia |title=The Plant Encyclopedia - Desmodium |url=http://www.theplantencyclopedia.org/wiki/Desmodium |encyclopedia=The Plant Encyclopedia |accessdate=17 January 2014}}</ref>
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intortum Category:Forages Category:Plants described in 1920