Grona (plant)

Grona is a genus in the flowering plant family Fabaceae. Its native range is worldwide tropics and subtropics.[1][2]

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[1]
About 44 species
Synonyms[1]
  • Perrottetia DC., 1825

Taxonomy

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
  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.
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