SC/SS 115 Ethnobotany Test One • Name:

1. Sketch Lycopodiella cernua and correctly label the strobili and microphylls. 2. Sketch Microsorum scolopendria, identify the frond shape, and correctly label the sori and rhizome.

For each of the plants in the laboratory write down the name, if any, of that plant in your language. Include also a use of that plant from any where in Micronesia.

Local Name ‖ Usage anywhere in Micronesia

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  11. _____________________ On the lycopodium, fern hike and again on the Pohnpei campus traditional plants of Pohnpei field trip, some of you saw plants that have names in your language, names that you did not know. What is the process of cultural knowledge loss called in the field of ethnography?
  12. Sketch and describe in brief the life cycle of a moss.
  13. What is a use of the aloe (Aloe vera) described by Totoa Fetalai-Currie?
  14. What is a use of the tumeric plant (Curcuma longa)?
  15. Explain the difference between public and private healing knowledge.
  16. ___________________________ Using your own local name, what plant is most often used in the local treatment of diabetes, as cited this term by Marcia?
  17. ___________________________ Using your own local name, what plant is most often used in the local treatment of fungal skin diseases such as ringworm, tinea versicolor, as cited this term by Piulyn?
  18. Of the above two plants, which might be the more effective treatment and why?

3. Nostoc

4. Moss

5. Lycopodiella cernua

6. Nephrolepis spp

7. Cyclosorus maemonensis

8. Microsorum scolopendria

9. Asplenium nidus

10. Clerodendrum inerme

11.Scaevola taccada

12. Ocimum tenuiflorum

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