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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: NS1A0017
Occurrence ID (GUID): e1ab85f7-61a6-4b8f-9ab8-0afedb4231d0
Taxon: Piper aduncum L.
Family: Piperaceae
Determiner: K.Pomoh (07 Feb 2014)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   NS1A0017   
Date: 2014-02-07
Verbatim Date: 03 Oct 2013
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang, Numba
-5.7222  145.2714
Elevation: 1200 meters (3936ft)
Habitat: Secondary lower montane forest
Description: tree, to 8.6 m in height, DBH 10.6 cm, trunk height to foliage 2.5 m, crown height 6.1 m, crown width 5.4 m; foliage 11.5 kg mature wet mass, 0.3228 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough, with lenticels; fissures vertical, narrow; bark brown, light brown, white; cambium brown, light brown, white, cream; wood brown, light brown, white, cream; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, 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: e1ab85f7-61a6-4b8f-9ab8-0afedb4231d0
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