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Table 6. 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 />

Ngercheu<br />

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

Koror, Malakal,<br />

Tecoma stans<br />

English: yellow bells, yellow-elder, yellow<br />

Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob,<br />

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

trumpetbush<br />

Kayangel, Peleliu, Ngerch<strong>on</strong>g,<br />

Pulo Ana, S<strong>on</strong>sorol, Tobi<br />

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

Thevetia peruviana English: yellow oleander, be-still tree, lucky nut Apocynaceae<br />

Koror, Malakal,<br />

Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob,<br />

Kayangel, Peleliu<br />

Thunbergia grandiflora<br />

English: Bengal trumpet, blue trumpet vine, clock<br />

Koror, Malakal, Babeldaob,<br />

vine, skyvine, large-flowerd thunbergia; <str<strong>on</strong>g>Palau</str<strong>on</strong>g>an: Acanthaceae<br />

Kayangel<br />

bung el etiu<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 />

Turnera ulmifolia<br />

English: yellow alder, sage rose, West Indian holly,<br />

ramgoat dashal<strong>on</strong>g<br />

Turneraceae<br />

Koror, Malakal,<br />

Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob,<br />

Angaur, Kayangel, Peleliu,<br />

Ngerch<strong>on</strong>g<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<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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