This webpage is developed for The flora of Thailand Project. It is about taxomic study of the Desmodieae in Thailand. The Desmodieae is tribe of flowering plants which belonged to family Leguminosae, subfamily Papilionoideae. This tribe was established by Ohashi et al. (1981) and was classified into two subtribe including Desmodiinae and Lespedezinae. There are around 30 genera and ca. 527 species worldwide.