Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #:
NP1B0029
Occurrence ID (GUID):
a95aadd0-ea9f-4473-9ef6-07c8b55d8073
Taxon:Sterculia tantrae Morat Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: Z. Ezedin (10 Jul 2021)
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Collector:
Binatang Research Center NP1B0029
Date: 2021-07-10
Verbatim Date: 17 Mar 2014
Locality:
Papua New Guinea, Madang, Numba
-5.7222 145.2714
Elevation:
1200 meters
(3936ft)
Habitat:
Primary lower montane forest
Description:
tree, to 9.3 m in height, DBH 7.5 cm, trunk height to foliage 4.6 m, crown height 4.7 m, crown width 2.3 m; foliage 0.5425 kg mature wet mass; outer bark rough, with lenticels; fissures vertical; bark brown, light brown, white; cambium brown, light brown; wood light brown, white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: mondono Local use: Edible fruit and seeds; bark for rope; leaves for paper for smoking