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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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