Fabaceae
Grona

Grona fulvescens (B.G.Schub.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi

First published in J. Jap. Bot. 93: 111 (2018)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. DR Congo to Zambia. It grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian grassland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Herb
[ILDIS]

Leguminosae, B. Verdcourt. Flora Zambesiaca 3:6. 2000

Morphology General Habit
Strictly erect herb up to c. 90 cm tall with angular appressed-hairy or ± woolly stems.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 5–7.7 × 1.8–2.8 cm, oblong-elliptic, ± rounded at base and apex or subcuneate at base, glabrous or minutely puberulous on upper surface, densely pilose beneath; petiole 4–10 mm long; stipules 12–14 × 3.5 mm, ovate-attenuate, pubescent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences terminal and axillary, 28 cm long; rhachis puberulous and with longer hairs (fide Schubert) but densely brown-hairy in Zambian specimen; primary bracts 5 × 3 mm, ovate, acute, densely appressed pubescent, each supporting 1–2 pedicels; secondary bracts generally not present; pedicels up to 7 mm long, densely spreading pubescent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx tube 1.5 mm long, minutely puberulous; lobes ± equal, 4–6 mm long, lanceolate, pilose or long brown-hairy in Zambian material.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Corolla dark crimson; petals 4–6.5 mm long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruits with one margin slightly incised, the other deeply so, of 1–3 articles, each article 4.5 × 3.5 mm, almost round, reticulate, uncinulate-puberulous and pubescent; neck between articles c. 2 mm wide.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds 2 × 1.7 mm, subrectangular.
[FZ]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • International Legume Database and Information Service

    • International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • World Checklist of Vascular plants (WCVP)

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0