Grona (plant)
| Grona | |
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| Grona heterocarpos | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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 | |
| Diversity[1] | |
| About 44 species | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Grona is a genus in the flowering plant family Fabaceae. Its native range is worldwide tropics and subtropics.[1][2]
Taxonomy
[edit]The genus is placed in subfamily Faboideae and tribe Desmodieae. It was previously included in its relative Desmodium.[2]
There are about 44 species in the genus[1][3]:
- 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
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Grona Lour". Plants of the World Online. Kew Science. Retrieved 2021-01-09.
- ^ a b "Grona Lour". Tropicos. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
- ^ 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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