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Daprainia kingiana, is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae. It is the only known species of the monotypic genus Daprainia and native to Indo-China.

(Prain) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi

Both species and genus were first published in J. Jap. Bot. vol.94 on page 273 in 2019.

This species is accepted The native range of this species is Indo-China. It is a shrub and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome(s).

Native to: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand

Taxonomy
The genus name of Daprainia is in honour of Sir David Prain (1857–1944), who was a Scottish botanist who worked in India at the Calcutta Botanical Garden and went on to become Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The Latin specific epithet kingiana refers to

The genus was circumscribed by Hiroyoshi Ohashi and Kazuaki Ohashi in J. Jap. Bot. vol.94 (Issue 2) on page 71 in 2019.

The United States Department of Agriculture and Agricultural Research Service regard the species as a possible synonym of Desmodium with no species listed.

(re-word) Desmodium is a member of the Desmodium group of tribe Desmodieae (Ohashi 2005). The genus was circumscribed by Ohashi (1973) and Ohashi et al. (1981) (Desmodium s.l. hereafter). It was recognized to be polyphyletic by Jabbour et al. (2018), Ohashi and Ohashi (2018a) and Ohashi et al. (2018a) and has since been reclassified into many monophyletic genera based on the results of molecular phylogenetic analyses together with comparison of morphological and palynological characteristics (Ohashi and Ohashi 2018a, b, c, 2019, 2020, Ohashi et al. 2018a, b, 2019a, b). As the results of these studies, almost all native Asian species of Desmodium s.l. have been transferred to the genera