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Pseuderanthemum bicolor (Schrank) Radlk. syn. Eranthemum bicolor Schrank Recent introduction. E. Malaysia. Rare. Erect shrub, up to 1 m tall; leaves, mostly 5 to 15 cm long and up to 6 cm wide, purple or purple-brown, ovate-oblong or lanceolate-oblong, acuminate, glabrous or finely puberulent; flowers borne in axillary cymes, the uppermost sometimes in racemes, with puberulent calyxes, up to 1 cm long, and puberulent 5-lobed white tubular corollas, 3.5 to 4 cm long with red throats, one lobe with a red blotch, and other lobes white; fruiting capsule 2.5 to 3 cm long. Planted ornamental. 6, 7(27810). Pseuderanthemum carruthersii (Seem.) Guill. var. carruthersii "false eranthemum" te iaro (K) syns. Eranthernum eldorado Hort.; Pseudemnthemum eldorado (Williams) Radlk. Recent introduction. Melanesia? Occasional. Erect shrub, up to 1 m or higher; leaves, 5 to 15 cm long, smooth, elliptic-ovate leaves, mottled yellow-green, with conspicuous netlike veins; petioles 1 to 3 cm long; erect spike-like racemes bearing flowers with inconspicuous bracts, green or reddish 5-lobed calyxes, up to 8 mm long, and white and purple or rosy-purple tubular corollas, the tube, about 1.3 cm long, and the 5 lobes spreading to about 2.5 cm or more in diameter; fruiting capsule, four-seeded, club-shaped. Planted ornamental shrub. 3, 5, 6(201), 7. Pseuderanthemum carruthersii ( Seem .) Guill. var. atropurpureum (Bull) Fosb. "purple false eranthemum" , "false face" te iaro (K) ; lakauuli (T) syns. P. atropurpureum (Bull) Radlk. ; Eranthemum atropurpurewn Bull. ; P. versicolor (Hort.) Radlk. ; Eranthernum versicolor Hort. Recent introduction. Melanesia? Occasional. Erect shrub, up to 1.5 m or more high; leaves, 5 to 15 cm long, dark purplish-red, elliptic-ovate; petioles, 1 to 3 cm long; erect spike-like racemes bearing flowers with inconspicuous bracts, green or reddish 5- lobed calyxes, up to 8 mm long, and 4-lobed white and purple or rosy-purple tubular corollas, the tube and lobes about 1.3 cm long; fruiting capsule, four-seeded, club- shaped. Planted ornamental shrub. 3(58777, 58792), 5, 6, 7. Sanchezia speciosa Leonard syn. S. nobilis sensu auct. non H0ok.f. " sanchezia" Recent introduction. Ecuador. Rare. Erect shrub, up to 1 m or higher, with smooth four-angled branches; leaves, 6 to 45 cm long, oval, pointed at both ends, and green, with yellow mid- and side veins; narrow flowering spikes bearing wide red bracts,
about 2.5 cm long, each pair with clusters of 8 to 10 narrow bright-yellow tubular flowers with corollas about 5 cm long and 5-lobed calyxes; fruiting capsule, narrow, cylindrical, 6- to 8-seeded. Planted ornamental shrub 6(16l). Thunbergia alata Bojer ex Sims "black-eyed Susan" Recent introduction. Trop. Africa. Rare. Herbaceous or slightly woody pubescent climbing or trailing vine with angular stems, up to 2 m or longer; leaves, 4 to 8 cm long, mid-green, opposite, deltoid ovate or ovate-lanceolate, pointed, palmately-veined, irregularly toothed; winged petioles, about as long as the blade; flowers solitary on axillary stems (pedicels), up to 5 cm long, 2 large bracts, about 2 cm long, calyx ring- like, corolla, yellow-orange to cream, 3 to 4 cm across, with a purple tube, 2 cm long; fruiting capsule depressed-globose, beaked, about 1 cm long; seeds warty and ribbed. Planted ornamental vine. 5. Thunbergia erecta (Benth .) T. Anders. syn . Meyenia. erecta. Ben th . "bush thunbergia" Recent introduction. Trop. W. Africa. Occasional. Erect, somewhat sprawling shrub, up to 2 m tall, with 4-angled stems; leaves, 3 to 8 cm or longer, opposite, oval- ovate, palmately 5- to 7-nerved; petioles, slender, up to 4 cm or longer, winged nearly to base; flowers solitary on axillary stems (pedicels), 1 to 2 cm long, with 2 large bracts, up to 2 cm long, calyx, 3 to 6 mm long, corolla curved, funnel-form, 3.5 to 6 cm in diameter and tube 2 or 3 cm long, irregularly 5-lobed, deep blue-violet or white with a yellow throat; fruiting capsule 2 to 2.5 cm long. Planted ornamental erect shrub. 3(58700), 5(110), 6, 7. Thunbergia grandiflora (Roxb. ex Rottler) Roxb."Bengal clock vine", "Bengal trumpet", "large-flowered thunbergia" syn. Flemingia grandzj7ora Roxb. ex Rottler Recent introduction. India. Rare. Climbing vine; leaves, 7.5 to 20 cm long, dark green, nearly as broad, cordate, palmately lobed, 5 to 7- nerved, pubescent; petioles, 4 to 12 cm long; flowers in pendent racemes, calyx pubescent and reduced to a narrow ring, corolla violet or whitish, 6 to 8 cm in diameter, the tube pale yellow, 3 to 3.5 cm long; capsule up to 1.5 cm, the beak to 3 cm long. Planted ornamental. 6(187).
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ATOLL RESEARCH BULLETIN NO. 392 THE
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors would
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CONTENTS PART I: INTRODUCTION AND A
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MARANTACEAE MUSACEAE ORCHIDACEAE PA
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Table 1. Table 2. Table 3. Table 4.
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of the indigenous flora. Although g
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Climatically, Nauru is located in t
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Apart from the provisioning of whal
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mortality (Zimmet et al. 1977, 1978
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Lake in Anetan. Fosberg (c. 1972) a
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The houseyard gardens of I-Kiribati
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Species entering the succession ear
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Table 2. Species indigenous or poss
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Hemandia nymphaeifolia Hibiscus til
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of 258 km2, and few beaches; and Ma
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Nature of Exotic Species Exotic spe
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General Construction Scenting OilIP
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Table 4. Species of particular cult
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subsistence activities have arguabl
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4. The name (s) or the abbreviation
Page 42 and 43: other collectors. In-the field data
Page 44 and 45: VASCULAR PLANTS OF NAURU PTERIDOPHY
Page 46 and 47: colonies and dense populations in u
Page 48 and 49: CYCADACEAE (Cycad Family) Cycas cir
Page 50 and 51: atolls in Tuvalu and the Tuamotu an
Page 52 and 53: markings, midrib strong with 15 to
Page 54 and 55: Xanthosoma sagittifolium (L.) Schot
Page 56 and 57: Livistonia chinensis (Jacq.) R. Br.
Page 58 and 59: CANNACEAE (Canna Family) Canna indi
Page 60 and 61: Cyperus iria L. I' sedge" Recent in
Page 62 and 63: up to 30 cm or more long; tubers, l
Page 64 and 65: Allium ascalonicum L. te anian (K);
Page 66 and 67: longitudinal bands; flowers, small,
Page 68 and 69: Dracaena sanderiana Sander "dracaen
Page 70 and 71: as the leaves; fruit, globose, oran
Page 72 and 73: Maranta leuconeura Morr. " maranta"
Page 74 and 75: medicinally to wrap sick persons to
Page 76 and 77: (Topside); women were formerly resp
Page 78 and 79: Chloris inflata Link syn. C. barbat
Page 80 and 81: Recent introduction. Old World trop
Page 82 and 83: Oplismenus hirtellus (L.) Beauv. va
Page 84 and 85: PONTEDERIACEAE (Pickerel Weed Famil
Page 86 and 87: Recent introduction. Indonesia to P
Page 88 and 89: DICOTYLEDONAE ACANTHACEAE (Acanthus
Page 90 and 91: a calyx about 0.5 cm long and a two
Page 94 and 95: Achyranthes canescens R. Br. syn. A
Page 96 and 97: long; flowers, greenish to purplish
Page 98 and 99: Spondias mombin L. syn. S. lutea L.
Page 100 and 101: deltoid-ovate, but deeply toothed o
Page 102 and 103: Nerium oleander L. var. oleander te
Page 104 and 105: Recent introduction. India. Occasio
Page 106 and 107: Pre-World war I1 introduction. Mela
Page 108 and 109: Hoya carnosa (L.) R. Br. syns. Ascl
Page 110 and 111: Emilia sonchifolia (L.) DC. "purple
Page 112 and 113: to 2.5 cm wide, simple, alternate,
Page 114 and 115: BEGONIACEAE (Begonia Family) Begoni
Page 116 and 117: BOMBACACEAE (Bombax Family) Ceiba p
Page 118 and 119: petiolate or not clasping; petioles
Page 120 and 121: Rhaphanus sativus L. var. longipinn
Page 122 and 123: Capparis quiniflora DC. syn. C. ric
Page 124 and 125: lanceolate or subulate, awl-shaped
Page 126 and 127: stamens; fruit, about 2.5 cm long,
Page 128 and 129: Ipomoea hederifolia L. syn. I. angu
Page 130 and 131: CRASSULACEAE (Orpine Family) Kalanc
Page 132 and 133: mm long, many, whitish or buff, smo
Page 134 and 135: Luffa acutangula (L.) Roxb. "angled
Page 136 and 137: green, often mottled with various s
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Page 140 and 141: Euphorbia hypericifolia L. "spurge"
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orne in cyathia in sessile, axillar
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Phyllanthus amarus Sch. & Th. te ka
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Adenanthera pavonina L. bin ("beanU
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Recent introduction. Trop. America.
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Canavalia rosea (Sw.) DC. "sea bean
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pair largest, elliptic or ovate-lan
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Crotalaria retusa L. " rattlepod" R
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central plateau. No reported use in
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Indigenous. Indopacific. Occasional
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of leaflets; petioles, up to 10 cm
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and 5 to 7 mm wide, linear-oblong o
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parted; corolla, showy, bright scar
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HERNANDIACEAE (Hernandia Family) He
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Location. Fragrant flowers and leav
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crowded near the ends of branches;
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MALVACEAE (Mallow Family) Abutilon
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Hibiscus mutabilis L. "changeable r
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Malvastrum coromandelianum (L.) Gar
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2.5 cm wide, alternate, elliptic or
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long, linear, yellowish, fragrant;
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leaves, 10 to 30 cm long and 5 to 2
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MYRTACEAE (Myrtle Family) Eucalyptu
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numerous, anthers introrse, opening
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lades with axillary hair tufts bene
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Passiflora edulis Sims "passionfrui
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earing numerous crowded small flowe
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to 3 cm long; inflorescences, small
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emnant. Rare shrub with edible frui
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Ixora casei Hance "ixora" te katuru
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-- --- included, anthers normal but
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to bright yellow when ripe dependin
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SAPOTACEAE (Sapodilla Family) Chrys
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Russelia sarmentosa Jacq. Recent in
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Datura metel L. syn. D. fastuosa L.
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Solanum melongena L. "egg plant", "
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Triumfetta procumbens F0rst.f. "bea
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asally; petiole, 0.4 to 2 cm long,
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-- used in garlands. The first Naur
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strip in low-lying areas near base
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. c. 1972. Phytogeography of Micron
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Mueller-Dombois, D. 1975. Some aspe
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- . 1988a. Health and Nutrition in
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216 Appendix I. Class, subclass, fa
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Lauraceae 1 - 1 2 Lecythidaceae 1 -
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Lepidiwn bidentatum Peperomia spp.
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222 Cordia subcordata Qcas circinal
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