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Table 2. Major species that are invasive or potentially invasive in <str<strong>on</strong>g>Palau</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

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

Psidium guajava English: guava; <str<strong>on</strong>g>Palau</str<strong>on</strong>g>an: guabang, kuabang Myrtaceae tree<br />

Solanum <str<strong>on</strong>g>to</str<strong>on</strong>g>rvum English: prickly solanum, devil's fig, turkeyberry, ter<strong>on</strong>gan Solanaceae shrub<br />

Sphagneticola trilobata<br />

English: wedelia, trailing daisy, Singapore daisy, creeping ox-eye;<br />

<str<strong>on</strong>g>Palau</str<strong>on</strong>g>an: ngesil ra ngebard<br />

Asteraceae herb<br />

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

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

*†Syzygium cumini<br />

mesekerrák, mesekerrak, mesigerak<br />

Myrtaceae tree<br />

Tecoma stans English: yellow bells, yellow-elder, yellow trumpetbush Bign<strong>on</strong>iaceae small tree<br />

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

Thunbergia grandiflora<br />

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

large-flowerd thunbergia; <str<strong>on</strong>g>Palau</str<strong>on</strong>g>an: bung el etiu<br />

Acanthaceae vine<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 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 />

Commelinaceae<br />

kobesos<br />

herb<br />

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

*Turnera subulata English: white alder Turneraceae shrub<br />

Turnera ulmifolia<br />

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

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

Turneraceae shrub<br />

†Vitex parviflora English: small-leaved vitex, smallflower chastetree Verbenaceae shrub/ tree<br />

*Cultivated<br />

†<str<strong>on</strong>g>Report</str<strong>on</strong>g>ed present by Fosberg et al. (1979)<br />

††<str<strong>on</strong>g>Report</str<strong>on</strong>g>ed present by Fosberg et al. (1979), no locati<strong>on</strong> given<br />

#Voucher specimen at Bishop Museum Herbarium<br />

¤<str<strong>on</strong>g>Report</str<strong>on</strong>g>ed present by Miles (pers. com.)<br />

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