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

Scientific Description

Prostrate,spreading or scrambling, herb. Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, not continuous with stem, 30-40 mm long, 6-20 mm wide, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, pinnately arranged, terminal leaflet present, stalked; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 5-5.6 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 3-6 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 3-4.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Stamens ten; filaments united in an open sheath with one free stamen. Fruit indehiscent and not splitting into sections, sessile or subsessile, constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, not beaked. Occurs in the Northern Botanical Province, in the Victoria Bonaparte IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority One (P1).