# Grona (plant)

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

## Taxonomy

The genus is placed in subfamily Faboideae and tribe Desmodieae. It was previously included in its relative Desmodium.
There are about 44 species in the genus:
* 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.