Ethnobotany final examination ❀ Name:

This final was conducted as a field practical. The class met in the Palikir ethnobotanical garden. The instructor indicated twelve plants. Students then filled in the appropriate information for the twelve plants. One point was awarded per correct answer. Local use was awarded one point for a generic answer (medicine, healing, food, drink, shelter, etcetera), two points for a specific use (four leaves are heated and applied to the skin for fungal infection).

   Latin |    Local name       | Local use (anywhere in Micronesia)
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You can use Latin name more than once if the same species is identified more than one time.

Matching: Latin binomials
AScaevola taccada
BAreca catechu
CCampnosperma brevipetiolata
DSenna alata [formerly Cassia alata]
ECocos nucifera
FAsplenium nidus
GMicrosorum scolopendria [Also known as Phytomasorus scolopendria]
HMorinda citrifolia
IGardenia jasminoides [G. augusta]
JHibiscus tiliaceus
KIxora casei
LMacaranga carolenensis
MPiper ponapense
NMusa spp.
OMelastoma malabathicum var. marianum
PSaccharum offinarum
QCitrus aurantifolia
RCyrtosperma chamissionis
SPremna obtusifolia [Sometimes listed as Premna serratifolia]
TClerodendrum inerme