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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: NS1A0011
Occurrence ID (GUID): cddd1610-b079-420a-8a13-3b7ba72b8616
Taxon: Piper aduncum L.
Family: Piperaceae
Determiner: K.Pomoh (05 Feb 2014)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   NS1A0011   
Date: 2014-02-05
Verbatim Date: 04 Oct 2013
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang, Numba
-5.7222  145.2714
Elevation: 1200 meters (3936ft)
Habitat: Secondary lower montane forest
Description: tree, to 7.31 m in height, DBH 8.1 cm, trunk height to foliage 3.9 m, crown height 3.41 m, crown width 2.82 m; foliage 5 kg mature wet mass, 0.1682 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough, with lenticels; fissures vertical, narrow; bark brown; cambium brown, light brown, white, cream; wood brown, light brown, white, cream; exudate absent; from felled plot. Local name: krangim gonga wo Local use: Timber for fence construction; bark for rope to tie fences; roofing in house construction; firewood
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Record Id: cddd1610-b079-420a-8a13-3b7ba72b8616
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