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 a Latin name more than once if the same species is identified more than one time.

Matching: Latin binomials
AAreca catechu
BAsplenium nidus
CCalophyllum inophyllum
DCampnosperma brevipetiolata
ECitrus aurantifolia
FClerodendrum inerme
GCocos nucifera
HCyrtosperma chamissionis
IGardenia jasminoides [G. augusta]
JHibiscus tiliaceus
KIxora casei
LMacaranga carolenensis
MMelastoma malabathicum var. marianum
NMicrosorum scolopendria [Also known as Phytomasorus scolopendria]
OMorinda citrifolia
PMusa spp.
QPiper ponapense
RPremna obtusifolia [Sometimes listed as Premna serratifolia]
SSaccharum offinarum
TScaevola taccada
USenna alata [formerly Cassia alata]