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Grona flagellaris

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Grona flagellaris (Benth.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Desmodium flagellare Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Desmodium sp. 'Limbunya' (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
  • Desmodium sp. A25447 [Bren 2061/OSS] (taxonomic synonym)
  • Meibomia flagellaris (Benth.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: NTH_2014 (2), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (19), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 38 records in 8 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 12.5 mm (8-17 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); yellow (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 19.5 mm (8-31 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 14.5 mm (6-23 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); obcordate (1); obovate (1); orbicular (1); widely_elliptical (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): rounded (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1); spreading (2) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nyyyynnnnnnn (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 2.9 mm (2.8-3 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2 mm (1.8-2.2 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): reniform (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.2 m (0.15-0.25 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231319D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
NTH_202244D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_200644A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
NTH_201422Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.