Systematic Treatments
Lespedeza Michx. [ex Richard], Fl. Boreal.-Amer. 2: 70 (1803)-de Candolle, Prodr. 2: 348 (1825)-G. Don, Gen. Hist. 2: 307 (1838)-Endlicher, Gen. Pl. 1286, n. 6623 (1840)-Bentham in Benth. & Hook. f., Gen. Pl. 1: 524 (1865)-Maxim. in Ada Hort. Petrop. 2: 345 (1873)-Taubert in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.-fam. III, 3: 332 (1891)-Schindler in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 49: 570 (1913)-Nakai, Lesp. Jap. Korea (in Bull. For. Exp. Stat. Chosen 6:) 1 (1927)-Hutchinson, Gen. Fl. Pl. 1: 487 (1964)-Ohashi in Journ. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo, III, 11: 62 (1971)-Ohashi, Polhill & Schubert in Polhill & Raven (ed.), Advan. Leg, Syst. Part 1, 300 (1981).
Type species: L. virginica (L.) Britton (=L. sessilifiora Michx.).
Section Macrolespedeza Maxim. in Acta Hort. Petrop. 2: 346 (1873), ut "Macro Lespedeza"-Schindler in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 49: 574 (1913)-Nakai, Lesp. Jap. Korea, 8 (1927)-Hatusima in Mem. Fac. Agr. Kagoshima Univ. 6: 1 (1967), in sensu emed., excl. L. floribunda Bunge.
Lespedeza sect. Archilespedeza Taub. A. Macrolespedeza Maxim. apud Taubert in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.-fam. III, 3: 332 (1891).
Lespedeza sect. Heterolespedeza Nakai in Journ. Jap. Bot. 15: 531 (1939)-Hatu sima in Mem. Fac. Agr. Kagoshima Univ. 6: 1 (1967).
Lespedeza subgen. Macrolespedeza (Maxim.) Ohashi in Journ. Jap. Bot. 57: 29 (1982), cum sect. Macrolespedesa et sect. Heterolespedeza.
Type species: L. bicolor Turcz. (Nakai, 1939).
Series Macrolespedeza
