Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER)
Report on invasive plant species in Palau (2008 survey)
Appendix 7, Table 3. Other species present elsewhere in Palau but not on Angaur
|
Scientific Name |
Common Names (abridged) |
Family |
Present on: |
| Alocasia macrorrhizos | English: ape, cunjevoi, Egyptian lily, elephant's ear, giant alocasia, giant taro, pai | Araceae | Koror, Babeldaob, Peleliu, Ngeanges, Sonsorol |
| Alysicarpus bupleurifolius | English: sweet alys | Fabaceae | Malakal, Babeldaob |
| Alysicarpus vaginalis | English: alyce-clover, buffalo-clover, one-leaf-clover | Fabaceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob, Aulupse‘el |
| Amaranthus viridis | English: green amaranth, pigweed, slender amaranth | Amaranthaceae | Koror, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob, Ngercheu, Sonsorol |
| Ammannia baccifera | English: amania, monarch redstem | Lythraceae | Peleliu |
| Aniseia martinicensis | English: whitejacket | Convolvulaceae | Babeldaob |
| Annona glabra | English: pond apple, alligator apple, bullock's heart, cherimoyer | Annonaceae | Babeldaob |
| Annona squamosa | English: custard apple, sugar apple, sweetsop; Palauan: ngel ra ngebard | Annonaceae | Koror |
| Asclepias curassavica | English: bloodflower milkweed, butterfly weed, false ipecac, milkweed | Asclepiadaceae | Koror, Babeldaob, Peleliu, Pulo Ana, Sonsorol |
| Bambusa spp. | English: bamboo; Palauan: bambuu, esel | Poaceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob, Sonsorol |
| Basella alba | English: Ceylon spinach, Indian spinach, Malabar nightshade, Malabar spinach, vine spinach | Basellaceae | Ngeanges |
| Begonia × semperflorens-cultorum | English: bedding begonia, perpetual begonia, wax begonia | Begoniaceae | Koror |
| Bidens pilosa | English: beggar’s tick, Spanish needle, cobbler's pegs | Asteraceae | Peleliu |
| Bixa orellana | English: anatto, annato, annatto, arnatto, lipstick tree; Palauan: búrek, burk | Bixaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Breynia disticha | English: snowbush, snowbush breynia, sweetpea bush, foliage-flower | Euphorbiaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Brucea javanica | English: Java brucea, Macassar kerneltree | Simaroubaceae | Babeldaob |
| Buchnera americana | English: American bluehearts, bupleurum | Orobanchaceae | Babeldaob |
| Caesalpinia pulcherrima | English: Barbados flower-fence, dwarf poinciana, pride of Barbados | Fabaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Calathea majestica | Marantaceae | Koror | |
| Calliandra calothyrsus | English: powderpuff red calliandra | Fabaceae | Babeldaob |
| Calliandra haematocephala | English: red powder puff | Fabaceae | Koror |
| Calliandra surinamensis | English: Surinamese stickpea | Fabaceae | Koror |
| Callisia fragrans | English: fragrant inch plant, basketplant, spironema | Commelinaceae | Ngercheu |
| Cananga odorata | English: perfume tree; Palauan: chiráng, ilang-ilang, irang | Annonaceae | Koror, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob |
| Capsicum frutescens | English: bird pepper, bird's-eye chili, bird's-eye pepper, hot pepper, red chili, spur pepper, Tabasco pepper; Palauan: meringel | Solanaceae | Malakal, Babeldaob, Kayangel, Ngercheu, Sonsorol |
| Celosia argentea | English: cockscomb; Palauan: chesechil a malk, esechila malk | Amaranthaceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob, Sonsorol |
| Centratherum punctatum | English: Brazilian button flower, centratherum, lark daisy | Asteraceae | Babeldaob |
| Citrus aurantiifolia | English: Key lime, lime, Mexican lime, sour lime, West Indian lime; Palauan: malchianged | Rutaceae | Koror, Peleliu |
| Cleome gynandra | English: African spider-flower, bastard-mustard, cat's-whiskers, spider wisp, wild spider flower | Capparaceae | Koror |
| Cleome viscosa | English: tickweed, spider flower | Capparaceae | Babeldaob |
| Coffea arabica | English: coffee; Palauan: kohi | Rubiaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Coffea liberica | English: Liberian coffee | Rubiaceae | Koror |
| Coix lacryma-jobi | English: adlay, adlay millet, Job's-tears; Palauan: demairuuch, tauiir | Poaceae | Koror, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob, Peleliu |
| Commelina diffusa | English: commelina, dayflower, wandering Jew, spiderwort | Commelinaceae | Koror, Malakal, Babeldaob |
| Corchorus aestuans | Tiliaceae | Babeldaob | |
| Coreopsis lanceolata | English: garden coreopsis, lanceleaf tickseed, tickseed | Asteraceae | Koror |
| Crotalaria incana | English: fuzzy rattlepod, woolly rattlepod; Palauan: kuroteraria | Fabaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Desmodium gangeticum | Fabaceae | Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob | |
| Desmodium heterophyllum | English: hetero, Spanish clover | Fabaceae | Babeldaob |
| Dichanthium annulatum | English: Angleton grass, bluestem, Diaz bluestem, Hindi grass, Kleberg bluestem, marvel grass, sheda grass | Poaceae | Babeldaob |
| Digitaria bicornis | English: southern crabgrass | Poaceae | Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob |
| Eclipta prostrata | English: eclipta, false daisy, swamp daisy, white eclipta; Palauan: deberebelela tengadidik | Asteraceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob, Kayangel, Peleliu |
| Eleocharis dulcis | English: Chinese water-chestnut, ground-chestnut, waternut; Palauan: kerdikes | Cyperaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Elephantopus mollis | English: elephantopus, elephant’s foot, false tobacco, tobacco weed | Asteraceae | Babeldaob |
| Episcia cupreata | English: episcia, flame violet | Gesneriaceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob |
| Erechtites hieraciifolius | English: American burnweed, American fireweed, burnweed, fireweed, Malayan groundsel, pilewort | Asteraceae | Babeldaob |
| Euphorbia graminea | English: grassleaf spurge | Euphorbiaceae | Ngercheu |
| Euphorbia pulcherrima | English: Christmas flower, Mexican flameleaf, painted leaf, poinsettia; Palauan: becheselrak | Euphorbiaceae | Koror |
| Ficus elastica | English: India rubber tree, rubber plant; Palauan: komunokí, komunoki | Moraceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang |
| Gossypium barbadense | English: cotton, sea island cotton | Malvaceae | Babeldaob |
| Heliconia spp. | English: heliconia, parrot's-flower, parrot's-plantain, crab claw, lobster claw | Heliconiaceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob |
| Hippobroma longiflora | English: star of Bethlehem, fetia, madamfate; Palauan: udel ra badrei | Campanulaceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob, Bkul a Chesemiich, Ngerchong, Sonsorol |
| Impatiens balsamina | English: impatiens, balsam, garden balsam, rose balsam, spotted snapweed, touch-me-not; Palauan: hosengka | Balsaminaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Impatiens walleriana | English: garden impatiens, balsam, busy lizzy, bizzy-lizzie, patient lucy; sultan’s flower | Balsaminaceae | Koror, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob |
| Ixora coccinea | English: flame of the forest, jungle geranium, red ixora | Rubiaceae | Koror |
| Jacaranda mimosifolia | English: jacaranda | Bignoniaceae | Koror |
| Jasminum sambac | English: Arabian jasmine | Oleaceae | Koror |
| Leucas lavandulifolia | Lamiaceae | Babeldaob | |
| Malva parviflora | English: cheeseweed, Egyptian mallow, little mallow, small-flower mallow | Malvaceae | Babeldaob |
| Malvaviscus penduliflorus | English: Turk's cap | Malvaceae | Kayangel |
| Melampodium divaricatum | English: blackfoot, golden button | Asteraceae | Babeldaob |
| Merremia umbellata | English: yellow wood rose | Convolvulaceae | Koror |
| Mirabilis jalapa | English: beauty of the night, false jalap, four o'clock, marvel of Peru | Nyctaginaceae | Koror, Babeldaob, Kayangel, Sonsorol |
| Mitracarpus hirtus | English: tropical girdlepod | Rubiaceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob |
| Moringa oleifera | English: horseradish tree, drumstick tree, ben nut, morango; Palauan: malungkai | Moringaceae | Koror, Malakal, Babeldaob, Kayangel, Peleliu, Ngercheu |
| Nerium oleander | English: mountain rose, oleander | Apocynaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Nicotiana tabacum | English: tobacco; Palauan: dekool, dekoul, derool, tobaco | Solanaceae | Koror, Malakal, Babeldaob |
| Ochroma pyramidale | English: balsa, corkwood, down tree | Bombacaceae | Babeldaob |
| Orthosiphon aristatus | English: cat’s whiskers; Palauan: emadecharebub | Lamiaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Oxalis barrelieri | Oxalidaceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob | |
| Passiflora edulis | English: passion fruit, yellow passion fruit, purple passion fruit, qarandila, purple granadilla; Palauan: kudamono | Passifloraceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Passiflora quadrangularis | English: granadilla, giant granadilla; Palauan: kudamono | Passifloraceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Persea americana | English: avocado, alligator pear; Palauan: bata | Lauraceae | Koror, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob |
| Phaseolus lunatus | English: lima bean, butter bean, Burma bean, haricot bean, Madagascar bean, sieva bean, sugar bean | Fabaceae | Babeldaob |
| Phyllanthus debilis | Euphorbiaceae | Koror, Malakal | |
| Physalis minima | English: sunberry | Solanaceae | Babeldaob, Peleliu |
| Physalis peruviana | English: Cape gooseberry, goldenberry, gooseberry-tomato, Peruvian ground-cherry, Peruvian-cherry | Solanaceae | Koror |
| Pilea nummulariifolia | English: creeping Charlie | Urticaceae | Koror |
| Piriqueta racemosa | English: ridgid stripeseed | Turneraceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Pityrogramma calomelanos | English: Dixie silverback fern, gold fern (var. austroamericana), gold-dust fern (var. austroamericana), silver fern | Pteridaceae | Babeldaob |
| Plectranthus amboinicus | English: Mexican mint, Spanish thyme, Cuban oregano | Lamiaceae | Koror |
| Pteris vittata | English: Chinese brake, Chinese ladder brake, ladder brake | Pteridaceae | Babeldaob, Peleliu |
| Pueraria phaseoloides | English: tropical kudzu, puero | Fabaceae | Babeldaob |
| Ravenala madagascariensis | English: traveler’s palm, traveler’s tree, ravenale | Strelitziaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Ruellia tuberosa | English: large bell-flower (Samoa) | Acanthaceae | Babeldaob |
| Russelia equisetiformis | English: coralplant, fountainplant | Scrophulariaceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob |
| Scoparia dulcis | English: scoparia, sweet broom | Scrophulariaceae | Babeldaob, Peleliu |
| Sesbania cannabina | English: canicha, dhaincha, dhunchi, sesbania pea | Fabaceae | Koror, Malakal, Babeldaob |
| Setaria parviflora | English: knotroot bristle grass, knotroot foxtail, perennial foxtail, slender pigeon grass, yellow foxtail | Poaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Sigesbeckia orientalis | English: Indian weed, small yellow crown-beard, yellow crown-head | Asteraceae | Babeldaob |
| Solanum americanum | English: American nightshade, black nightshade, glossy nightshade | Solanaceae | Koror, Malakal |
| Solanum nigrum | English: black-berry night shade (Australia), black nightshade, poisonberry | Solanaceae | Malakal |
| Solenostemon scutellarioides | English: coleus | Lamiaceae | Koror, Babeldaob, Kayangel |
| Spermacoce exilis | English: Mauritius false buttonweed | Rubiaceae | Babeldaob |
| Spermacoce latifolia | English: buttonweed, oval leaf false buttonweed | Rubiaceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob |
| Spermacoce ocymoides | English: purple-leaved button weed | Rubiaceae | Babeldaob |
| Stapelia gigantea | English: carrion flower, starfish flower, zulu-giant, giant toad plant | Asclepiadaceae | Babeldaob |
| Swietenia macrophylla | English: Honduras mahogany, large-leaved mahogany, mahogany | Meliaceae | Koror, Kayangel |
| Syzygium jambos | English: malabar plum, rose apple, Malay apple | Myrtaceae | Koror, Babeldaob |
| Syzygium malaccense | English: Malay-apple, mountain-apple, Otaheite-apple, pomerac, rose-apple; Palauan: kidel | Myrtaceae | Koror, Tobi |
| Tabebuia heterophylla | English: pink tecoma, pink trumpet tree, white cedar | Bignoniaceae | Koror, Malakal, Ngerkebesang, Babeldaob, Kayangel |
| Tabebuia pallida | English: Cuban pink trumpet tree, white cedar, whitewood | Bignoniaceae | Koror |
| Tagetes erecta | English: African marigold, Aztec marigold, big marigold, French marigold, marigold, saffron marigold | Asteraceae | Koror |
| Uraria lagopodioides | Fabaceae | Babeldaob | |
| Zornia gibbosa | Fabaceae | Babeldaob |
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