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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: NS1A0037
Occurrence ID (GUID): af6f9cd6-9127-4cff-a60e-901377e917fb
Taxon: Piper aduncum L.
Family: Piperaceae
Determiner: K. Molem (13 Feb 2014)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   NS1A0037   
Date: 2014-02-13
Verbatim Date: 07 Oct 2013
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang, Numba
-5.7222  145.2714
Elevation: 1200 meters (3936ft)
Habitat: Secondary lower montane forest
Description: small tree, to 9.1 m in height, DBH 7.3 cm, trunk height to foliage 5.9 m, crown height 3.2 m, crown width 2 m; foliage 2.5 kg mature wet mass, 0.233 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough, with lenticels; fissures vertical, broad; bark brown, green; 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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