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Genus of plants

Grona
Grona heterocarpos
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Desmodieae
Genus: Grona
Lour., 1790
Type species
Grona repens
Lour., 1790
( = Grona heterocarpos
(L.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi, 2018)
Diversity
About 44 species
Synonyms
  • Perrottetia DC., 1825

Grona is a genus in the flowering plant family Fabaceae. Its native range is worldwide tropics and subtropics.

Taxonomy

The genus is placed in subfamily Faboideae and tribe Desmodieae. It was previously included in its relative Desmodium.

There are about 44 species in the genus:

  • Grona adscendens (Sw.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - West Indies, Central and South America, introduced into Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea, Melanesia, and widely in tropical Africa, Madagascar.
  • Grona appressipila (B.G.Schub.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Tanzania.
  • Grona auricoma (Graham ex Benth.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - India, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Indonesia (Java).
  • Grona barbata (L.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Africa and tropical America.
  • Grona birmannica (Watt ex Prain) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Myanmar.
  • Grona brachystachya (Graham ex Benth.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Southern India.
  • Grona brevipedicellata (W.Saisorn, Chantar. & Balslev) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Thailand.
  • Grona brownii (Schindl.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland).
  • Grona caffra (E.Mey.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - ?
  • Grona capitata (Burm. f.) H. Ohashi & K. Ohashi - India, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Micronesia (Yap).
  • Grona cordifolia (Harms) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - ?
  • Grona ferruginea (Wall. ex Thwaites) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Sri Lanka, India, Micronesia (Yap).
  • Grona filiformis (Zoll. & Moritzi) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Indonesia, New Guinea, Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland).
  • Grona flagellaris (Benth.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory).
  • Grona fulvescens (B.G.Schub.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Congo.
  • Grona glareosa (Pedley) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory).
  • Grona griffithiana (Benth.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - India, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China (Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan).
  • Grona hannii (Schindl.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland).
  • Grona harmsii (Schindl.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Vietnam.
  • Grona helenae (Buscal. & Muschl.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Congo, Rhodesia.
  • Grona heterocarpa (L.) H. Ohashi & K. Ohashi - Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, China, Taiwan, and southern Japan, NE Australia, Pacific islands, Africa.
  • Grona heterophylla (Willd.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, S & SE China, Taiwan, Japan (Ryukyus, Ogasawara), Pacific islands, Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea, Madagascar (rare), introduced to Australia, New Caledonia.
  • Grona hirta (Guill. & Perr.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Tropical Africa, Madagascar.
  • Grona jucunda (Thwaites) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Sri Lanka.
  • Grona juruenensis (Hoehne) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Brazil.
  • Grona muelleri (Benth.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland).
  • Grona nemorosa (F.Muell. ex Benth.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - New Guinea, Australia (Queensland, New South Wales).
  • Grona orinocensis (DC.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Venezuela.
  • Grona pullenii (Pedley) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Indonesia (Lesser Sunda Islands) and Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland).
  • Grona pycnotricha (Pedley) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory).
  • Grona ramosissima (G.Don) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika, Zambia, Madagascar, Mascarene Is.
  • Grona retroflexa (L.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - ?
  • Grona rubra (Lour.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Cambodia, Vietnam, China (Guangdong, Hainan).
  • Grona schubertiae (H.Ohashi) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Cambodia, Vietnam.
  • Grona schweinfurthii (Schindl.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Congo.
  • Grona setigera (E.Mey.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Cameroun, Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rhodesia, South Africa, Tanganyika, Uganda, Zambia.
  • Grona stolzii (Schindl.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Burundi, Congo, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Zaire, Zimbabwe.
  • Grona strigillosa (Schindl.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - ?
  • Grona styracifolia (Osbeck) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodge, Laos, Vietnam, S. China, Philippines, Indonesia (Sulawesi).
  • Grona tiwiensis (Pedley) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Australia (Northern Territory: Bathurst Island).
  • Grona trichostachya (Benth.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - New Guinea, Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland).
  • Grona triflora (L.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Worldwide in tropics. Native in tropical Asia and Africa.
  • Grona wittei (B.G.Schub.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Congo.
  • Grona wynaadensis (Bedd. ex Gamble) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Southern India (W. Ghats, Nilgiri, Anamalai, Travancore Hills).
  • Grona zenkeri (Schindl.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi - Cameroons.

References

  1. ^ "Grona Lour". Plants of the World Online. Kew Science. Retrieved 2021-01-09.
  2. ^ "Grona Lour". Tropicos. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  3. Ohashi, Hiroyoshi; Ohashi, Kazuaki (April 2018). "Grona, a Genus Separated from Desmodium (Leguminosae Tribe Desmodieae)" (PDF). The Journal of Japanese Botany. 93 (2): 104–120. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-10-01. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
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