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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: NP1A0022
Occurrence ID (GUID): 56f32e9a-4e5d-4aae-b5a0-02e388a5fd4c
Taxon: Ardisia imperialis K.Schum.
Family: Myrsinaceae
Determiner: K. Molem (15 Sep 2014)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   NP1A0022   
Date: 2014-09-15
Verbatim Date: 29 May 2013
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang, Numba
-5.7222  145.2714
Elevation: 1200 meters (3936ft)
Habitat: Primary lower montane forest
Description: small tree, to 5.35 m in height, DBH 6.9 cm, trunk height to foliage 3.55 m, crown height 1.8 m, crown width 2.7 m; foliage 1 kg mature wet mass, 0.45 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures horizontal, broad; bark white, cream; cambium brown, light brown, yellow; wood light brown, orange, white, cream; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: wakawaka, korogumnajo Local use: Timber for fence construction and for flooring and walls in house construction; firewood
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