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Grona tiwiensis

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Grona tiwiensis (Pedley) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Desmodium sp. 'Melville Is.' (taxonomic synonym)
  • Desmodium sp. 1 (Melville Island; R.Fensham 445) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Desmodium tiwiense Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: NTH_2014 (13), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (18), Sjostrom_2006 (4). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 22 traits from 39 records in 4 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): 19.5 mm (14-25 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 3.25 mm (3-3.5 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) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 35 mm (16-54 mm) [sources: NTH_2014; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 30 mm (18-42 mm) [sources: NTH_2014; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): orbicular (1); ovate (2); subulate (1) [sources: NTH_2014; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1); rounded (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: NTH_2014; NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 2.1 mm (1.6-2.8 mm) [sources: NTH_2014; NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.58 mm (1.3-2 mm) [sources: NTH_2014; NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: NTH_2014; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231318D. 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_2014913Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
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.