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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: YP4C0279
Occurrence ID (GUID): 382e81e9-c599-4f6d-888a-a56a3627d8b2
Taxon: Dicksonia sciurus C.Chr.
Family: Dicksoniaceae
Determiner: H. Nowatuo (11 Mar 2013)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   YP4C0279   
Date: 2013-03-11
Verbatim Date: 13 Apr 2012
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan
-6.163017  146.842983
Elevation: 1732 meters (5681ft)
Habitat: Primary montane rainforest
Description: tree, to 16.1 m in height, DBH 25.8 cm, trunk height to foliage 9.5 m, crown height 6.6 m, crown width 4.2 m; foliage 10 kg mature wet mass; outer bark rough, flaky; fissures vertical, broad; bark black, dark brown; cambium black, dark brown; wood brown, light brown; exudate orange, red; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: kaminge; imondim Local use: edible young leaves; shoots used as bait when hunting tree kangaroos
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Record Id: 382e81e9-c599-4f6d-888a-a56a3627d8b2
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