Grona (plant)

Grona
Grona heterocarpos
Scientific 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

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

Taxonomy

The genus is placed in subfamily Faboideae and tribe Desmodieae. It was previously included in its relative Desmodium . ^[2]

There are about 50 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 afra (E.Mey.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi – eastern and southern Africa
• 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 cordifolia (Harms) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi – central Africa
• 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, Zambia, Zimbabwe
• Grona heterocarpos (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 laosensis H.Ohashi, K.Ohashi & Tagane – Laos
• 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 Islands
• Grona reticulata (Champ. ex Benth.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi – Southeast Asia, China
• Grona retroflexa (L.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi – India, Sri Lanka, Thailand
• Grona rubra (Lour.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi – Cambodia, Vietnam, China (Guangdong, Hainan)
• Grona saulierei (Schindl.) Kottaim – India
• 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 – Southeast Asia, China
• Grona styracifolia (Osbeck) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi – Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, 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 – tropical Asia and Africa
• Grona varians (Labill.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi – Australia, New Caledonia
• Grona vidalii (H.Ohashi) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi – Laos
• Grona wittei (B.G.Schub.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi – Congo
• Grona wynaadensis (Bedd. ex Gamble) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi – Southern India (Western Ghats, Nilgiri, Anamalai, Travancore Hills)
• Grona zenkeri (Schindl.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi – Cameroon

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.