SC/SS 115 Ethnobotany Test One • Name:

Answer the following questions as specifically as you can.

1. Nostoc
   • Local name, if any, in your language:
2. Moss
   • Local name, if any, in your language:
3. Lycopodiella cernua
   • Local name, if any, in your language:
   • Local use, anywhere in Micronesia:
   • Scientific name of the leaves:
   • Scientific name of the cones:
   • Some either did not know or could not remember the name or use for this plant. What is the term for this loss of cultural knowledge?:
4. Asplenium nidus
   • Local name, if any, in your language:
   • Local use, anywhere in Micronesia:
   • Frond morphology (shape):
   • Scientific name of the brown lines on bottom of frond:
5. Microsorum scolopendria
   • Local name, if any, in your language:
   • Specific purpose when worn as a mwarmwar by a Pohnpeian dancer dancing away from home:
   • Frond morphology (shape):
6. Nephrolepis exaltata
   • Local name, if any, in your language:
   • Local use, anywhere in Micronesia:
   • Frond morphology (shape):
   • Name in English of the coiled young frond head:
7. Cyclosorus maemonensis
   • Local name, if any, in your language:
   • Local household use:
   • Frond morphology (shape):
8. Colocasia esculenta
   • Local name, if any, in your language:
   • Healing use in Yap (Elvira):
     • Plant part used:
     • How part is used:
     • Illness treated:
9. Citrus aurantifolia
   • Local name, if any, in your language:
   • Healing use in Pohnpei (Mallone):
     • Plant part used:
     • How part is used:
     • Illness treated:
10. Clerodendrum inerme
    • Local name, if any, in your language:
    • Healing use in Pohnpei (Lewis):
      • Plant part used:
      • How part is used:
      • Illness treated:
11. Scaevola taccada
    • Local name, if any, in your language:
    • Healing use in Kosrae (Vanessa):
      • Plant part used:
      • How part is used:
      • Illness treated:

12. Sketch the life cycle of monilophyte including the sporophyte with fertile frond, sori, spores, gametophyte, and other pertinent features of the cycle.

1. Nostoc
2. Moss
3. Lycopodiella cernua
4. Asplenium nidus
5. Microsorum scolopendria
6. Nephrolepis exaltata
7. Cyclosorus maemonensis
8. Colocasia esculenta
9. Citrus aurantifolia
10. Clerodendrum inerme
11. Scaevola taccada