Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER)
Report on invasive plant species in Palau (2008 survey)
Appendix 6, Table 5. Species of environmental concern present elsewhere in Palau but not on Peleliu
|
Scientific Name |
Common Names (abridged) |
Family |
Present on: |
| Abrus precatorius | English: bead vine, coral bead plant, precatory, precatory bean, red beadvine, rosary pea | Fabaceae | Koror, Malakal, Angaur |
| Acacia confusa | English: Formosa koa, Formosa acacia; Palauan: ianángi, yanangi | Fabaceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob |
| Acacia farnesiana | English: Ellington curse, klu, sweet acacia | Fabaceae | Babeldaob |
| Acacia mangium | English: mangium, brown salwood, black wattle, hickory wattle | Fabaceae | Babeldaob |
| Adenanthera pavonina | English: coral bean tree, red sandalwood tree, red bead tree; Palauan: telengtúngd, telentundalel | Fabaceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob |
| Aeschynomene americana | English: American joint vetch, joint vetch, shyleaf | Fabaceae | Koror, Ngerkebesand, Babeldaob |
| Agave sisalana | English: sisal, sisal hemp | Agavaceae | Babeldaob |
| Albizia lebbeck | English: siris-tree, rain tree, East Indian walnut; Palauan: ukall ra ngebard | Fabaceae | Koror |
| Allamanda cathartica | English: yellow trumpet vine, golden trumpet, golden allamanda, golden cup | Apocynaceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob |
| Alocasia cucullata | English: Chinese ape, Chinese taro | Araceae | Koror |
| Alpinia purpurata | English: red ginger | Zingiberaceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob, Angaur |
| Alternanthera brasiliana | English: Brazilian joyweed, Joseph’s coat | Amaranthaceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob, Ngercheu |
| Amaranthus dubius | English: amaranth, spleen amaranth | Amaranthaceae | Koror, Malakal, Babeldaob |
| Amaranthus spinosus | English: edlebur, needle burr, spiny amaranth, thorny pigweed | Amaranthaceae | Angaur |
| Angelonia angustifolia | English: angelonia, narrowleaf angelon | Scrophulariaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Antigonon leptopus | English: Mexican creeper, hearts on a chain, coral vine; Palauan: dilngau | Polygonaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Argemone mexicana | English: Mexican prickly-poppy, Mexican poppy, yellow thistle | Papaveraceae | |
| Arundo donax | English: giant reed, Spanish reed, wild cane | Poaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Asparagus densiflorus | English: asparagus fern, sprengeri fern, smilax, regal fern | Liliaceae | Koror, Ngerkebesang |
| Asystasia gangetica subsp. gangetica | English: Chinese violet, Philippine violet, coromandel | Acanthaceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob, Kayangel |
| Barleria cristata | English: crested Philippine violet, Philippine violet | Acanthaceae | Koror |
| Bauhinia acuminata | English: dwarf white bauhinia | Fabaceae | Koror |
| Bauhinia monandra | English: orchid-tree, St. Thomas-tree, Napoleon's plume | Fabaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Bauhinia purpurea | English: purple orchid tree; purple butterfly tree | Fabaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Bauhinia variegata | English: orchid tree; mountain ebony | Fabaceae | Babeldaob |
| Bryophyllum delagoense | English: chandelier plant | Crassulaceae | Babeldaob |
| Calamus spp. | English: rattan; Palauan: bangerenguis ra ngebard | Arecaceae | Babeldaob |
| Calopogonium mucunoides | English: calopo | Fabaceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob |
| Canna indica | English: canna, canna lily, Indian shot | Cannaceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob, Angaur, Sonsorol, Tobi |
| Canna x generalis | English: canna lily, common garden canna | Cannaceae | Koror |
| Caryota mitis | English: Burmese fishtail palm, clustered fishtail palm, tufted fishtail palm | Arecaceae | Koror |
| Ceiba pentandra | English: kapok tree, silk-cotton tree, pacae; Palauan: kalngebárd, kalngebard, kerrekar ngebard | Bombacaceae | Koror, Malakal, Babeldaob, Kayangel |
| Centrosema pubescens | English: centro, butterfly-pea | Fabaceae | Koror, Malakal, Babeldaob |
| Chamaecrista mimosoides | English: Japanese tea; Palauan: ukellela chedip | Fabaceae | Koror, Ngerkebesand, Babeldaob |
| Chamaecrista nictitans | English: partridge pea, Japanese tea senna | Fabaceae | Koror, Malakal, Babeldaob |
| Chloris radiata | English: plush-grass, radiate fingergrass | Poaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Chloris virgata | English: feather finger grass, feathered chloris, feathertop Rhodes grass, feathery Rhodes grass, oldland grass, sweet grass | Poaceae | Babeldaob |
| Cinnamomum verum | English: cinnamon tree; Palauan: ochod ra ngebard | Lauraceae | Koror, Babeldaob, Chelbacheb, Urukthapel |
| Clidemia hirta | English: Koster’s curse, soap bush; Palauan: kúi, kui | Melastomataceae | Babeldaob |
| Clitoria ternatea | English: butterfly pea, Asian pigeonwings; Palauan: kles | Fabaceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob |
| Costus woodsonii | English: Indian-head ginger, red cane; Hawaiian: ‘awapuhi ‘inikini po‘o | Costaceae | Ngerkebesang |
| Crinum asiaticum | English: Asiatic poisonbulb, crinum, false spider lily, giant crinum lily, grand crinum, poisonbulb, spider lily; Palauan: bisecherad ra ngebard | Liliaceae | Koror, Angaur, Ngerchong, Sonsorol |
| Crotalaria micans | English: crotalaria | Fabaceae | Babeldaob |
| Crotalaria spectabilis | English: rattlebox, showy crotalaria, showy rattlebox, showy rattlepod; Palauan: kuroteraria | Fabaceae | Koror, Ngerkebesand, Babeldaob |
| Crotalaria trichotoma | English: curara-pea | Fabaceae | Babeldaob |
| Cryptostegia madagascariensis | English: Madagascar rubbervine | Ascelepiadaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Cyperus compressus | English: flat sedge | Cyperaceae | Koror, Malakal, Babeldaob, Angaur, Sonsorol |
| Cyperus difformis | English: dirty-Dora, one-arm sedge, rice sedge, small-flower umbrella-plant, variable flat sedge | Cyperaceae | Malakal, Babeldaob |
| Cyperus distans | English: slender cyperus | Cyperaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Cyperus involucratus | English: umbrella sedge, umbrella plant, dwarf papyrus grass; Palauan: deus | Cyperaceae | Koror |
| Derris elliptica | English: derris; Palauan: deris, dub | Fabaceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob |
| Desmanthus pernambucanus | English: pigeon bundleflower | Fabaceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob |
| Desmanthus virgatus | English: slender mimosa, virgate mimosa | Fabaceae | Koror, Malakal, Babeldaob |
| Desmodium tortuosum | English: Florida beggarweed, Spanish clover, dixie ticktrefoil | Fabaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Digitaria violascens | English: smooth crabgrass, violet crabgrass; Palauan: sau | Poaceae | Koror, Ngerkebesand, Babeldaob |
| Dissotis rotundifolia | English: dissotis, Spanish shawl, pink lady | Melastomataceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Echinochloa colona | English: awnless barnyard grass (Australia), corn panic grass, Deccan grass, jungle ricegrass, jungle rice, millet-rice, shama millet; Palauan: uaum | Poaceae | Koror, Malakal, Babeldaob, Angaur, Aulupse‘el |
| Echinochloa crus-galli | English: barnyard grass, cockspur grass | Poaceae | Babeldaob |
| Eichhornia crassipes | English: water hyacinth; Palauan: bung el ralm | Pontederiaceae | Koror, Ngerkebesand, Babeldaob |
| Elaeis guineensis | English: African oil palm | Arecaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Elaeocarpus angustifolius | English: blue fig, blue marble tree, quandong (Australia) | Elaeocarpaceae | |
| Epipremnum pinnatum cv. 'Aureum' | English: pothos, money plant | Araceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob |
| Episcia reptans | Gesneriaceae | Koror, Ngerkebesand, Babeldaob | |
| Eragrostis atrovirens | English: thalia love grass, wiry lovegrass; Palauan: ouemoket | Poaceae | Babeldaob |
| Eragrostis ciliaris | English: gophertail grass, gophertail lovegrass, lovegrass, woolly love grass; Palauan: ouemoket | Poaceae | Babeldaob |
| Eragrostis pilosa | English: hairy love grass, Indian love grass, soft lovegrass | Poaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Eugenia uniflora | English: Surinam cherry, red Brazil cherry | Myrtaceae | Koror |
| Eustachys petraea | English: pinewoods fingergrass | Poaceae | Angaur |
| Falcataria moluccana | English: Molucca albizia; Palauan: ukall ra ngebard | Fabaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Ficus benjamina | English: weeping fig, baka, Java fig, weeping fig, Benjamin tree | Moraceae | Malakal, Babeldaob, Ngercheu |
| Flemingia macrophylla | Fabaceae | Koror, Ngerkebesand, Babeldaob | |
| Flemingia strobilifera | English: luck plant, wild hops; Palauan: besungelaiei, pesungel a iei | Fabaceae | Koror, Ngerkebesand, Babeldaob, Angaur |
| Gliricidia sepium | English: mother of cacao, quickstick, Mexican lilac; Palauanr: rechesengel | Fabaceae | Koror, Ngerkebesand, Babeldaob,Tobi |
| Gmelina asiatica | English: badhara bush, Asiatic beechberry, oval-leafed gmelina; Palauan: kalngebang? | Lamiaceae | Koror |
| Hedychium coronarium | English: white ginger, butterfly lily, ginger lily, garland flower | Zingiberaceae | Koror, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob |
| Hemigraphis alternata | English: metal leaf; red ivy, cemetery plant (Fiji) | Acanthaceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob |
| Hevea brasiliensis | English: hevea, Brazilian rubber tree, Para rubber tree | Euphorbiaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Hyptis capitata | English: knobweed | Lamiaceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob |
| Hyptis pectinata | English: comb hyptis, comb bushmint, mint weed, purple top | Lamiaceae | Babeldaob, Angaur |
| Imperata cylindrica | English: blady grass, cogon grass, satintail; Palauan: kasoring | Poaceae | Babeldaob, Angaur |
| Inga edulis | English: ice cream bean | Fabaceae | Koror |
| Ipomoea carnea subsp. fistulosa | English: bush morning glory, tree ipomoea | Convolvulaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Ipomoea quamoclit | English: Cupid's flower, cypress vine, cypressvine morning-glory, star of Bethlehem, star-glory, sweet-willy; Palauan: asangao | Convolvulaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Jatropha curcas | English: physic nut, purging nut, Barbados nut | Euphorbiaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Jatropha gossypiifolia | English: bellyache bush, cotton-leaved physic nut | Euphorbiaceae | Koror, Ngerkebesang |
| Kyllinga brevifolia | English: green kyllinga, green water sedge; Palauan: deus, esechesiding | Cyperaceae | Koror, Babeldaob, Tobi |
| Leonurus japonicus | English: lion’s tail, Chinese motherwort | Lamiaceae | Koror |
| Livistonia chinensis | English: Chinese fan palm, Chinese fountain palm, fountain palm | Arecaceae | Koror |
| Macroptilium atropurpureum | English: siratro, purple bushbean | Fabaceae | Babeldaob |
| Macroptilium lathyroides | English: cow pea, phasey bean, wild bean | Fabaceae | Babeldaob |
| Melaleuca quinquenervia | English: melaleuca, cajeput, paper bark tree, punk tree | Myrtaceae | Babeldaob |
| Melia azedarach | English: Chinaberry, pride-of-India, indian lilac, Persian lilac, margosa tree, tira | Meliaceae | Koror, Malakal, Babeldaob, Ngercheu |
| Melinis minutiflora | English: melinis, molasses grass | Poaceae | Babeldaob |
| Merremia hederacea | English: ivy woodrose | Convolvulaceae | Koror |
| Mimosa diplotricha | English: giant sensitive plant, nila grass; Palauan: mechiuaiu | Fabaceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob, Angaur |
| Mimosa pudica | English: sensitive grass, sensitive plant, shameplant, sleeping grass, touch-me-not; Palauan: mechiuaiu | Fabaceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob, Angaur |
| Murraya paniculata | English: orange jessamine, satin-wood, Chinese box, Hawaiian mock orange | Rutaceae | Koror, Ngerkebesand, Babeldaob |
| Nymphaea spp. | English: water lily | Nymphaeaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Ocimum gratissimum | English: wild basil, clove basil, tree basil | Lamiaceae | Koror, Ngerkebesand, Babeldaob, Tobi |
| Panicum maximum | English: Guinea grass, green panic, buffalograss | Poaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Panicum repens | English: torpedo grass, couch panicum, creeping panic | Poaceae | Koror |
| Paspalum paniculatum | English: Russell river grass, galmarra grass | Poaceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob, Angaur |
| Passiflora suberosa | English: wild passionfruit, devil's pumpkin, indigo berry, corky passionflower, corkstem passionflower | Passifloraceae | Koror, Malikal |
| Pennisetum setaceum | English: fountain grass | Poaceae | Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob |
| Pereskia aculeata | English: Barbados gooseberry, leafy cactus, lemon vine, pereskia creeper, primitive cactus, Spanish gooseberry | Cactaceae | Ngercheu |
| Pistia stratiotes | English: water lettuce, tropical duckweed | Araceae | Babeldaob |
| Pithecellobium dulce | English: Madras thorn, Manila tamarind, sweet inga; Palauan: kamatsíri, kamatsiri | Fabaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Psidium cattleianum | English: strawberry guava, cherry guava, Cattley guava, Chinese guava | Myrtaceae | Koror |
| Quisqualis indica | English: Rangoon creeper | Combretaceae | Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob |
| Sambucus mexicana | English: elderberry, Mexican elder | Caprifoliaceae | Koror |
| Sanchezia parvibracteata | English: sanchezia | Acanthaceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob |
| Schefflera arboricola | English: dwarf brassia, dwarf schefflera, Hawaiian elf schefflera | Araliaceae | Koror |
| Senna occidentalis | English: antbush, coffee senna; Palauan: korriu, kurriu | Fabaceae | Koror, Malakal, Babeldaob, Angaur |
| Senna siamea | English: cassod tree, kassod tree, Siamese cassia, pheasantwood, Thailand shower | Fabaceae | Koror, Ngerkebesand, Babeldaob |
| Senna surattensis | English: scrambled eggs | Fabaceae | Babeldaob |
| Sesbania grandiflora | English: sesbania, hummingbird tree, sesban, scarlet wisteria tree, corkwood tree; Palauan: katurai | Fabaceae | Koror, Malakal, Babeldaob, Ngerchong |
| Setaria sphacelata | English: African bristle grass, golden timothy | Poaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Solanum torvum | English: prickly solanum, devil's fig, turkeyberry, terongan | Solanaceae | Babeldaob |
| Sorghum bicolor | English: Sudan grass | Poaceae | Malakal |
| Sorghum halepense | English: Johnson grass, Aleppo grass, Aleppo milletgrass | Poaceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob |
| Spathodea campanulata | English: African tulip tree, fireball, fountain tree; Palauan: orsachel kui | Bignoniaceae | Koror, Ngerkebesand, Babeldaob |
| Sporobolus diander | English: Indian dropseed, tussock dropseed | Poaceae | Koror, Babeldaob, Ngerchong |
| Stenotaphrum secundatum | English: buffalo grass, St. Augustine grass | Poaceae | Ngerchong |
| Striga asiatica | English: witchweed | Scrophulariaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Stylosanthes guianensis | English: stylo, Brazilian lucerne, tropical lucerne, Nigerian stylo | Fabaceae | Babeldaob |
| Syzygium cumini | English: Java plum; jambolan plum; Palauan: mesegerak, mesekerrák, mesekerrak, mesigerak | Myrtaceae | Koror, Babeldaob, Aulupse‘el, Ngerukuid |
| Tephrosia candida | English: white tephrosia, white hoary-pea | Fabaceae | Babeldaob |
| Thunbergia grandiflora | English: Bengal trumpet, blue trumpet vine, clock vine, skyvine, large-flowerd thunbergia; Palauan: bung el etiu | Acanthaceae | Koror, Malakal, Babeldaob, Kayangel |
| Tithonia diversifolia | English: tree marigold, shrub sunflower, Mexican sunflower, Japanese sunflower | Asteraceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Triumfetta rhomboidea | English: Chinese burr, paroquet burr, burr bush | Tiliaceae | Babeldaob |
| Turnera subulata | English: white alder | Turneraceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob |
| Urochloa mutica | English: California grass, para grass, buffalo grass, Mauritius grass, signal grass | Poaceae | Koror, Malakal, Babeldaob |
| Urochloa reptans | English: creeping panic grass, running grass | Poaceae | Angaur |
| Urochloa subquadripara | English: brachiaria, green summer grass, tropical signalgrass, cori grass | Poaceae | Malakal, Sonsorol |
| Vitex parviflora | English: small-leaved vitex, smallflower chastetree | Verbenaceae | Malakal |
| Xenostegia tridentata | English: African morningvine; Palauan: kebeas | Convolvulaceae | Babeldaob |
| Youngia japonica | English: oriental hawksbeard | Asteraceae | Koror |
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