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 left:ISS004-E-6730 Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center. http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov Moruroa Moruroa is known by most people only because of the debatable nuclear tests that took place on this atoll. This should have been 181 such tests. The most motus today have french women names or the names of diverse birds. |
| Flora of Moruroa (almost complete) (green = pictures) Asplenium nidus, Barringtonia asiatica (?), Boerhavia tetrandra, Calophyllum inophyllum (?), Canavalia sericea, Cassytha filiformis, Cerbera manghas (?), Cocos nucifera, Cordia subcordata, Cyperus javanicus (?), Fimbristylis cymosa ssp. umbellatocapitata, Guettarda speciosa, Heliotropium anomalum, Heliotropium foertherianum, Hernandia nymphaeifolia, Hibiscus tiliaceus, Ipomoea macrantha, Ipomoea pes-caprae ssp. brasiliensis, Kadua romanzoffiensis, Lepidium bidentatum, Lepturus repens, Microsorum grossum, Nephrolepis hirsutula, Nesogenes euphrasioides, Pandanus tectorius, Paspalum vaginatum, Pemphis acidula, Premna serratifolia (?), Portulaca lutea, Psilotum nudum, Scaevola taccada, Suriana maritima, Thespesia populnea, Triumfetta procumbens, Vitex trifolia (?) |
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