Grona adscendens (Sw.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Grona

Characteristics

A herb. It lies along the ground and forms roots at the nodes. It can be 1 m long. The leaves have 3 leaflet stalks with leaflets 5.5 cm long by 3.5 cm wide. The flowers are in a loose group at the ends of branches. It grows 2-11 cm long. The fruit are 20-25 mm long.
Life form perennial
Growth form
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.4 - 0.56
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) 1.5
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows up to 1,350 m above sea level,
Light 7-9
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses animal food cover crop environmental use experimental purposes fodder food forage manure medicinal social use soil improve
Edible -
Therapeutic use Asthma (unspecified), Colic (unspecified), Tuberculosis (unspecified), Convulsion (unspecified), Depurative (unspecified), Laxative (unspecified), Marasmus (unspecified), Oliguria (unspecified), Ringworm (unspecified), Sore (unspecified), Venereal (unspecified), Wound (unspecified), Bronchitis (unspecified), Cough (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment soaking
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) 14 - 24
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Grona adscendens world distribution map, present in Angola, American Samoa, Australia, Burundi, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, China, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, French Guiana, Indonesia, India, Kenya, Liberia, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Mexico, Myanmar, Mozambique, Mauritius, Malawi, Malaysia, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Niue, Nepal, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Senegal, Singapore, Sierra Leone, Seychelles, Togo, Thailand, Taiwan, Province of China, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Viet Nam, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Conservation status

Grona adscendens threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77187388-1
WFO ID wfo-0001423669
COL ID 35324
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 633902
Wikipedia (EN)
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Synonyms

Desmodium arinense Desmodium ellipticum Hedysarum adscendens Hedysarum caespitosum Desmodium caespitosum Desmodium thwaitesii Desmodium trifoliastrum Meibomia thwaitesii Meibomia trifoliastra Desmodium vogelii Meibomia adscendens Desmodium glaucescens Desmodium racemiferum Desmodium adscendens Hedysarum lindleyi Desmodium simplex Hedysarum ascendens Desmodium coeruleum Desmodium oxalidifolium Desmodium ovalifolium Desmodium strangulatum Desmodium obovatum Meibomia racemifera Desmodium oxalidifolium Grona adscendens Meibomia adscendens var. obovata Desmodium adscendens var. trifoliastrum Grona adscendens var. robusta