SC/SS 115 Ethnobotany Test One • Name:
Answer the following questions as specifically as you can.
- Nostoc
- Local name, if any, in your language:
- Moss
- Local name, if any, in your language:
- 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?:
- 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:
- 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):
- 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:
- Cyclosorus maemonensis
- Local name, if any, in your language:
- Local household use:
- Frond morphology (shape):
- Psidium guajava
- Local name, if any, in your language:
- Healing use in Kosrae (presented by Delphina):
- Plant part used:
- How part is used:
- Illness treated:
- Allophylus timoriensis
- Healing use in Pohnpei (presented by C-leen Pretrick):
- Plant part used:
- How part is used:
- Illness treated:
- Clerodendrum inerme
- Local name, if any, in your language:
- Healing use in Pohnpei (presented by Giftleen, Ryan, Serpina, Thomas, and Rose):
- Plant part used:
- How part is used:
- Illness treated:
- Sketch the life cycle of monilophyte including the sporophyte with fertile frond, sori, spores, gametophyte, and other pertinent features of the cycle.
- Nostoc
- Moss
- Lycopodiella cernua
- Asplenium nidus
- Microsorum scolopendria
- Nephrolepis exaltata
- Cyclosorus maemonensis
- Psidium guajava
- Allophylus timoriensis (specimen not available)
- Clerodendrum inerme
- Scaevola taccada