Invasive plant species on Kosrae, Federated States of Micronesia

Scientific Name Common Names Family Habit
Pennisetum
purpureum
Psidium guajava
Saccharum
spontaneum
Samanea saman
English: elephant grass, napier grass, merker grass; French: herbe
éléphant, fausse canne à sucre; Other: bokso (Palau); puk-soh (Pohnpei);
acfucsracsracsr (Kosrae).
English: guava; French: goyavier; Other: kuafa (Chuuk); abas (Guam,
Saipan-Chamorro, Yap); apas (Saipan); abwas (Saipan-Carolinian);
guabang, kuabang (Palau); guahva, kuahpa (Pohnpei); kuhfahfah (Kosrae);
kuava (Cook Islands, Tonga); kuava, quwawa, nguava, ngguava ni India,
amrut (Fiji); kautoga, kautonga, kautonga tane (Niue); ku'ava, ku'avu, tu'avu
(American Samoa and Samoa); te kuawa (Kiribati); kuwawa (Nauru); tuava,
tumu tuava, tuvava (French Polynesia); kuawa (Hawai'i); guayaba
(Galapagos)
English: wild cane, false sugarcane; Other: banga ruchel (Palau); ac
(Kosrae); tebu salah; ahlek, ahlec, (Pohnpei); to aheo (French Polynesia)
English: monkeypod, rain tree, saman; Other: tronkon mames, trongkonmames
(CNMI-Chamorro); filinganga (CNMI-Carolinian); gumor ni spanis
(Yap); 'ohai (Hawaii); vaivai ni vavalangi, vaivai ni vavalagi (Fiji), kasia
(Tonga)
Poaceae
Myrtaceae
Poaceae
Fabaceae
Senna alata
English: candle bush; candelabra bush, Roman candle tree, emperor's
candlesticks, ringworm bush (Australia); French: epis d’or; Other: arakak
(Chuuk); Acapulco, akapuku, andadose, candalaria, take-biha (Guam);
kerula besokel, yult (Palau); rakau honuki, truke-n-kili-n-wai, tuhkehn kilin Fabaceae shrub
wai, tirakahonuki (Pohnpei); flay-n-sabouw (Yap); mulamula (Niue); bakau
<strong>plant</strong> (Solomon Islands); mbai ni thangi (Fiji); la'au fai lafa (American Samoa,
Samoa and Tonga); te'elango (Tonga)
Sesbania grandiflora
English: hummingbird tree, sesban, scarlet wisteria tree; French: agati a
grandes fleurs; Other: agati, agathi (Fiji); oufai, ofai, ouai (French
Fabaceae small tree
Polynesia); katurai (Guam); sepania (Samoa)
Solanum torvum
English: prickly solanum, devil's fig, turkeyberry, terongan; French: fausse
aubergine, aubergine sauvage épineuse; Other: piko (Vanuatu); tisaipale
(Tonga); kausoni, soni, kauvoto-votua, kaisurisuri, katai, bhankatiya, soni ni
Solanaceae shrub
vavalagi (Fiji)
Tecoma stans
English: yellow bells, yellow-elder, yellow trumpetbush; Other: peeal
(Puluwat), piti (French Polynesia)
Bignoniaceae small tree
Turnera ulmifolia English: yellow alder, ramgoat dashalong Turneraceae herb
Urena lobata
English: hibiscus burr, aramina, caesarweed, pink Chinese burr, urena burr;
French: jute africain; Other: dadangsi, dadangsi apaka, dadangsi machingat,
dádangse (Guam); chosuched e kui, osuched a rechui (Palau); karap, korop
(Pohnpei); nognuk, ocher (Chuuk); motipo, mosipo (Niue); mautofu,
Malvaceae shrub
manutofu (American Samoa and Samoa); qatima, gataya, nggatima (Fiji);
mo'osipo (Tonga), piripiri (French Polynesia)
Wedelia trilobata
English: wedelia, trailing daisy, Singapore daisy, creeping ox-eye; Other:
ngesil ra ngebard (Palau); dihpw ongohng, tuhke ongohng (Pohnpei);
rosrangrang (Kosrae); atiat (Puluwat); ate (Tonga)
Asteraceae herb
grass
tree
grass
tree
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