Grona triflora (L.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi

Bernal, R., G. Galeano, A. Rodríguez, H. Sarmiento y M. Gutiérrez. 2017. Nombres Comunes de las Plantas de Colombia. http://www.biovirtual.unal.edu.co/nombrescomunes/

Vernacular

amorseco, cadillo

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: not threatened. Confidence: confident

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation

Not Threatened

Ecology

Africa: Cultivated, Lake Victoria regional transition zone; grasslands, Somalia-Masai grasslands, Zambezian grassland, Sudanian grasslands

Morphology General Habit

Annual/Perennial, Not climbing, Herb/Shrub

Vernacular

Acaba Pangola, Alfalfilla De Llano, Amor Seco, Creeping Tick Trefoil, Estacal, Frijolillo, Heen-undupiyali, Hierba Cuartillo, Kodiadiamborona, Konikoni, Kudaliya, Marlomin, Petit Oseille Marron, Plati, Pti Tref, Threeflower Beggarweed, Tourlas, Trefle Bla

George R. Proctor (2012). Flora of the Cayman Isands (Second Edition). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Morphology General Habit

A prostrate creeping herb with pubescent stems, often rooting at the nodes

Morphology Leaves

Leaves with obovate or obcordate leaflets mostly 3–8 mm long

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers

Flowers axillary or opposite the leaves; calyx 2–3 mm long, with lanceolate lobes; corolla pink or purplish, 3–4 mm long

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Pods flat, curved, with continuous upper margin; joints 2–6, each ca. 3 mm long, the sides prominently net-veined.

Distribution

Grand Cayman. Pantropical.

Ecology

A frequent weed of lawns and pastures.

Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Distribution

Nativa en Colombia; Alt. 100 - 1700 m.; Andes, Llanura del Caribe, Orinoquia, Pacífico, Valle del Cauca, Valle del Magdalena.

Morphology General Habit

Hierba

Conservation

No Evaluada

Leguminosae, J. B. Gillett, R. M. Polhill & B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1971

Morphology General Habit

Prostrate creeping annual or perennial herb, often branched from the base or rooting at the nodes (in habit and aspect suggesting a species of Trifolium); stem terete and striate to angular, moderately to densely long white pilose.

Morphology Leaves

Leaves (1–)3-foliolate; stipules stramineous, obliquely ovate, 2–5 mm. long, 1–1.5 mm. wide, long-acuminate, truncate at base, somewhat pilose on outer surface, long-persistent; petiole long-pilose and minutely uncinulate-puberulent, 4–9 mm. long; leaf-rhachis similar, 1–2.5 mm. long; terminal leaflets obovate, retuse at apex, cuneate to acute at base, essentially glabrous and reticulate above, usually abundantly pilose beneath or only so on midrib and margins, the terminal 4.5–12 mm. long, 4–12 mm. wide, the lateral leaflets similar or more nearly elliptic and a little smaller.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences

Inflorescences axillary, usually composed of 3–4 pairs of flowers; primary bracts ovate-attenuate, 2–3.5 mm. long, 0.7–1.5 mm. wide, each subtending 2 pedicels, long-persistent; secondary bracts, if present, depauperate; pedicels slender, usually long-pilose, 6.5–11 mm. long.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers

Flowers blue, purple, reddish purple or pink.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx

Calyx 2-lipped, the upper bifid lobe more or less equalling the teeth of the lower lobe in length, each of the 5 teeth with a distinctive dark streak along its midrib and all of them long white pilose, 2.5–3.5 mm. long.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla

Corolla equalling or exceeding the calyx; standard ± orbicular but long-clawed, to 4.5 mm. long and 2–3 mm. wide; wings ± oblong and long-clawed, equalling the standard in length, 1 mm. wide; keel-petals scythe-shaped, long-clawed, also equalling standard, 1–1.3 mm. wide.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Fruit sessile, up to 5-articled, the upper suture straight or slightly reflexedly curved, the lower indented between the articles; articles ± quadrate, 2.3–4 mm. long and wide, curved below, separating from each other but not dehiscing, glabrous to abundantly uncinate-pubescent.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds

Seed quadrangular to nearly orbicular in outline, 1.5–2 mm. long, 1.5–1.8 mm. wide.

Habitat

Grassland, and a weed in cultivated ground by roadsides and sandy places forming small to large mats; often cited as growing in lawns and considered a satisfactory plant for such purpose; near sea-level to 1800 m.

Distribution

pantropical, extending northward into southern U.S.A. K5 K7 P T2 T3 T4 T6 U3 U4 Z

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

Morphology General Habit

Annual (or ?perennial) herb, often forming dense mats.

Morphology Stem

Stems prostrate, sometimes rooting at the nodes, much branched, 8–19 cm long, covered with spreading bristly yellow-brown hairs.

Morphology Leaves

Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 4–14(20) × 4–12(15) mm, obovate-oblong, obovate or obcordate, rounded to emarginate at the apex, rounded to cuneate at the base, glabrous above, pilose beneath with scattered white hairs, with a raised reticulation of veins above; petiole 4–11(15) mm long; rhachis 1–5 mm long; petiolules 0.5–1 mm long; stipules 3.5–6 × 1–1.5 mm, obliquely lanceolate, ± glabrous.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers

Flowers 1–3 in leaf-axils (or, fide Schubert, inflorescences short, mostly under 6–8-flowered); pedicels 5–10 mm long, pilose or glabrous; primary bracts 2–3.5 × 1–1.5 mm; secondary bracts mostly absent.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx

Calyx with bristly hairs, or pilose with long white hairs; tube 0.8 mm long; lobes 1–1.5 mm long, narrowly triangular-lanceolate.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla

Standard blue, purple, reddish or pink, up to 4.5 × 2–3 mm, ± round, but long-clawed.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Fruit 1.2–1.8 cm long, of 2–5 articles, held eccentrically on the pedicel which is continuous with the straight suture; other margin constricted between the articles; articles 2–3.5 mm long and wide, glabrous or uncinulate-pubescent and with a strong reticulation of raised nerves.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds

Seeds brown, finely speckled with black, 2.1 × 1.5 × 0.8 mm, reniform; hilum small eccentric.

Papilionaceae, Hutchinson and Dalziel. Flora of West Tropical Africa 1:2. 1958

Morphology General Habit

Stems much-branched, prostrate, creeping and forming dense mats

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers

Flowers pink or purple.

Vernacular

Pega pega

Use

Domestic, Environmental, Forage, Medicine, Weed