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Table 4. Species <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> envir<strong>on</strong>mental c<strong>on</strong>cern present elsewhere in <str<strong>on</strong>g>Palau</str<strong>on</strong>g> but not <strong>on</strong><br />

Kayangel<br />

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

English: African tulip tree, fireball, fountain tree;<br />

Koror, Ngerkebesand,<br />

Spathodea campanulata Bign<strong>on</strong>iaceae<br />

<str<strong>on</strong>g>Palau</str<strong>on</strong>g>an: orsachel kui<br />

Babeldaob<br />

Sphagneticola trilobata<br />

Koror, Malakal,<br />

English: wedelia, trailing daisy, Singapore daisy,<br />

Asteraceae Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob,<br />

creeping ox-eye; <str<strong>on</strong>g>Palau</str<strong>on</strong>g>an: ngesil ra ngebard<br />

Angaur, Peleliu, Tobi<br />

Sporobolus diander English: Indian dropseed, tussock dropseed Poaceae Koror, Babeldaob, Ngerch<strong>on</strong>g<br />

Koror, Malakal,<br />

English: blue rat's tail, dark-blue snakeweed, false<br />

Stachytarpheta<br />

Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob,<br />

verbena, nettleleaf velvetberry; <str<strong>on</strong>g>Palau</str<strong>on</strong>g>an: louch Verbenaceae<br />

cayennensis<br />

Angaur, Peleliu, Ngidech,<br />

beluu<br />

Urukthapel<br />

Stenotaphrum<br />

secundatum<br />

English: buffalo grass, St. Augustine grass Poaceae Ngerch<strong>on</strong>g<br />

Striga asiatica English: witchweed Scrophulariaceae Koror, Babeldaob<br />

English: stylo, Brazilian lucerne, tropical lucerne,<br />

Stylosan<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>s guianensis<br />

Nigerian stylo<br />

Fabaceae Babeldaob<br />

Syng<strong>on</strong>ium angustatum English: arrowhead plant, goosefoot plant Araceae<br />

Koror, Malakal,<br />

Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob,<br />

Angaur, Peleliu<br />

Syzygium cumini<br />

English: Java plum; jambolan plum; <str<strong>on</strong>g>Palau</str<strong>on</strong>g>an:<br />

mesegerak, mesekerrák, mesekerrak, mesigerak Myrtaceae Koror, Babeldaob, Aulupse‘el,<br />

Ngerukuid<br />

Tephrosia candida English: white tephrosia, white hoary-pea Fabaceae Babeldaob<br />

Tith<strong>on</strong>ia diversifolia<br />

English: tree marigold, shrub sunflower, Mexican<br />

sunflower, Japanese sunflower<br />

Asteraceae Koror, Babeldaob<br />

Triumfetta rhomboidea English: Chinese burr, paroquet burr, burr bush Tiliaceae Babeldaob<br />

Turnera subulata English: white alder Turneraceae<br />

Koror, Malakal,<br />

Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob<br />

Urochloa mutica<br />

English: California grass, para grass, buffalo grass,<br />

Poaceae<br />

Mauritius grass, signal grass<br />

Koror, Malakal, Babeldaob<br />

Urochloa reptans English: creeping panic grass, running grass Poaceae Angaur<br />

English: brachiaria, green summer grass, tropical<br />

Urochloa subquadripara<br />

signalgrass, cori grass<br />

Poaceae<br />

Malakal, S<strong>on</strong>sorol<br />

Vitex parviflora English: small-leaved vitex, smallflower chastetree Verbenaceae Malakal (Toirechuil)<br />

Xanthosoma<br />

English: new cocoyam, tania, yautia; <str<strong>on</strong>g>Palau</str<strong>on</strong>g>an:<br />

sagittifolium<br />

bisech ra ruk, eball<br />

Araceae<br />

Koror, Peleliu, S<strong>on</strong>sorol<br />

Xenostegia tridentata English: African morningvine; <str<strong>on</strong>g>Palau</str<strong>on</strong>g>an: kebeas C<strong>on</strong>volvulaceae Babeldaob<br />

Youngia jap<strong>on</strong>ica English: oriental hawksbeard Asteraceae Koror<br />

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