Enderbury Island
Page 17
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Smithsonian Institution Archives. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Digitaria pacifica much shorter less level than our Starbucks. Much of Sida procumbent - only in protect- ed edges of dragon or arena bowl is Sida upright. Sida, small seedlings and young plants seem to be fre- quent in Sesuvium patches rimming dragon (a white sand desert) hoe field in old dragon area). Londia - Meroechinoidic genera are a top-dend looking / a combination of a. low racipell or low ground water; b. small wind (cost to weed) across island; c. guano dropping or stem can leave from nesting lesser frigate and red-footed boobies. Frigate colony formed about bowl patch and into open area (on west side). Only a few frigate and red-foots near guano rice brush pile. Red-foot nests of Sida in old Londia links. Truncate at old guano digging wet site for scale bend Garcini -> Sida -> Borlaugue -> orchis (gourd) Cassine heptura helenium Digitaria Potulaca Cordiellum Sida capzithan (Sida) Potulaca -> Digitaria -> Sida to mid point in form Potulaca of scale brink side Borlaugue Sida - Borlaugae - Potulaca - in middle of old guano digging well end of island. Some heptura but very sparse. Distribution non-uniform - on rocky flats can find nothing but Borlaugae in other Borlaugae-Potulaca. Sida patches are occasional along rim of old guano works, as is a few scattered clumps of hepturaz. In protected area (behind shield) patch of heptura or low coral bottom Sesuvium (not this) Sida-Potulaca scattered about myself and poor other Corrolo veg- atation pattern of disturbed area.)