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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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