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Table 6. <strong>Invasive</strong> species <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> envir<strong>on</strong>mental c<strong>on</strong>cern present <strong>on</strong> Ngercheu<br />

Scientific Name Comm<strong>on</strong> Names (abridged) Family Habit<br />

*Acacia auriculiformis<br />

English: Papuan wattle, earleaf acacia, nor<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>rn black wattle, ear-pod<br />

wattle<br />

Fabaceae<br />

*Agave sp. English: American aloe, century plant Agavaceae succulent<br />

*Alternan<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>ra<br />

brasiliana<br />

English: Brazilian joyweed, Joseph’s coat Amaranthaceae herb<br />

Ax<strong>on</strong>opus compressus English: blanket grass, carpetgrass Poaceae grass<br />

English: life plant, air plant, resurrecti<strong>on</strong> plant, Canterbury bells,<br />

*Bryophyllum pinnatum<br />

ca<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>dral bells, Mexican love plant<br />

Crassulaceae succulent<br />

Cenchrus echinatus<br />

English: burgrass, sand-bur, sou<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>rn sandbur, Mossman River grass<br />

(Australia)<br />

Poaceae grass<br />

Clerodendrum<br />

buchananii var. fallax<br />

*Clerodendrum<br />

quadriloculare<br />

Cyperus rotundus<br />

*Datura metel<br />

Digitaria ciliaris<br />

English: red clerodendrum, pagoda-flower; <str<strong>on</strong>g>Palau</str<strong>on</strong>g>an: but a cherechar,<br />

butcherechár, butecherechar<br />

Lamiaceae<br />

tree<br />

shrub<br />

English: br<strong>on</strong>ze-leaved clerodendrum; <str<strong>on</strong>g>Palau</str<strong>on</strong>g>an: kleuang Lamiaceae shrub<br />

English: nut grass, nutsedge, purple nutsedge, cocograss; <str<strong>on</strong>g>Palau</str<strong>on</strong>g>an<br />

tamanengi<br />

English: datura, downy thorn-apple, Hindu datura, hoary thorn-apple,<br />

jims<strong>on</strong>-weed<br />

English: Henry's crabgrass, smooth crabgrass, tropical crab grass,<br />

large crab grass, sou<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>rn crabgrass, fingergrass, summer grass<br />

Cyperaceae<br />

Solanaceae<br />

Poaceae<br />

*Duranta erecta English: duranta, golden dewdrop, pige<strong>on</strong>-berry, sky-flower Verbenaceae shrub<br />

Eleusine indica<br />

English: goosegrass, wiregrass, goose foot, crow's foot, bullgrass;<br />

<str<strong>on</strong>g>Palau</str<strong>on</strong>g>an: deskim, kelelamalk, keteketarmalk<br />

Poaceae grass<br />

Eriger<strong>on</strong> bellioides English: bellorita, fleabane daisy Asteraceae herb<br />

*Ficus benjamina English: weeping fig, baka, Java fig, weeping fig, Benjamin tree Moraceae tree<br />

*Lantana camara English: lantana Verbenaceae shrub<br />

*Leucaena<br />

leucocephala<br />

*Melia azedarach<br />

*Muntingia calabura<br />

Paspalum<br />

scrobiculatum<br />

Passiflora foetida<br />

*Pereskia aculeata<br />

English: leucaena, wild tamarind, lead tree; <str<strong>on</strong>g>Palau</str<strong>on</strong>g>an: telengtungd,<br />

telentund<br />

English: Chinaberry, pride-<str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g>-India, indian lilac, Persian lilac, margosa<br />

tree, tira<br />

English: jam tree, strawberry tree, Jamaican cherry, Singapore cherry,<br />

Panama cherry, Panama berry, ornamental cherry, calabura, sirsen;<br />

<str<strong>on</strong>g>Palau</str<strong>on</strong>g>an: budo<br />

English: rice grass; creeping paspalum, ditch millet, Indian paspalum,<br />

kodo millet, water couch; <str<strong>on</strong>g>Palau</str<strong>on</strong>g>an: desum<br />

English: love-in-a-mist, wild passi<strong>on</strong> fruit, passi<strong>on</strong>flower, stinking<br />

passi<strong>on</strong>flower; <str<strong>on</strong>g>Palau</str<strong>on</strong>g>an: kudam<strong>on</strong>o<br />

English: Barbados gooseberry, leafy cactus, lem<strong>on</strong> vine, pereskia<br />

creeper, primitive cactus, Spanish gooseberry<br />

Fabaceae<br />

Meliaceae<br />

Tiliaceae<br />

Poaceae<br />

Passifloraceae<br />

Cactaceae<br />

Pilea microphylla English: artillery plant, gunpowder plant, pis<str<strong>on</strong>g>to</str<strong>on</strong>g>l plant, rockweed Urticaceae herb<br />

*Pseuderan<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>mum<br />

English: false eran<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>mum Acanthaceae shrub<br />

carru<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>rsii<br />

*Sansevieria trifasciata English: bowstring hemp, mo<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>r-in-law’s <str<strong>on</strong>g>to</str<strong>on</strong>g>ngue; <str<strong>on</strong>g>Palau</str<strong>on</strong>g>an: kitelel Agavaceae herb<br />

Tim<strong>on</strong>ius tim<strong>on</strong> English: liberal (<str<strong>on</strong>g>Palau</str<strong>on</strong>g>) Rubiaceae tree<br />

*Tradescantia<br />

spathacea<br />

English: oyster plant, boat plant, boat lily, moses in a boat; <str<strong>on</strong>g>Palau</str<strong>on</strong>g>an:<br />

kobesos<br />

Commelinaceae<br />

*Tradescantia zebrina English: wandering zebrina, wandering jew, inchplant Commelinaceae herb<br />

*Cultivated<br />

sedge<br />

herb<br />

grass<br />

tree<br />

tree<br />

tree<br />

grass<br />

vine<br />

shrub<br />

herb<br />

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