學名發表文獻

H. Ohashi & R. R. Mill, Edinburgh Journal of Botany 57: 179. 2000.  (Edinburgh J. Bot.)

台灣首次記錄發表文獻

Huang et al., Flora of Taiwan, second edition 6: 65. 2003.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)

異名

• Desmodium gardneri auct. non Benth.
  Forbes & Hemsl., The journal of the Linnean Society of London. Botany 23: 172. 1887.  (J. Linn. Soc., Bot.)
• Desmodium tashiroi Matsum.
  Matsum., The Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo, Japan 12: 418. 1899.  (J. Coll. Sci. Univ. Tokyo)
• Desmodium laxum auct. non DC.
  Hosok., Short Flora of Formosa 98. 1936.  (Short Fl. Formos., 最新台灣植物總名錄)
• Desmodium laxum DC. ssp. leptopus (A. Gray ex Benth.) Ohashi
  Ohashi, The Asiatic species of Desmodium and its allied genera (Leguminosae) 1: 141. 1973.  (Ginkgoana)

各語言俗名

• 中
  田代氏山螞蝗.
• 日
  ときわやぶはぎ.

參考資料

• Huang et al., Flora of Taiwan, second edition 6: 65. 2003.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)
• Yang, A list of plants in Taiwan . 1982.  (List Pl. Taiwan, 台灣植物名彙)