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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: NS2A0114
Occurrence ID (GUID): e677c8c3-8840-4005-8f34-54a03d995570
Taxon: Piper aduncum L.
Family: Piperaceae
Determiner: K.Pomoh (13 Feb 2014)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   NS2A0114   
Date: 2014-02-13
Verbatim Date: 16 Oct 2013
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang, Numba
-5.7222  145.2714
Elevation: 1200 meters (3936ft)
Habitat: Secondary lower montane forest
Description: tree, to 7.2 m in height, DBH 7.1 cm, trunk height to foliage 3 m, crown height 4.2 m, crown width 4 m; foliage 3 kg mature wet mass, 0.1069 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, with lenticels; fissures vertical, horizontal, narrow; bark white, green; cambium light brown, white, cream; wood yellow, 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: e677c8c3-8840-4005-8f34-54a03d995570
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