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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: NS2A0118
Occurrence ID (GUID): 1ca594ea-3b35-424a-b5eb-90fbe6433959
Taxon: Piper aduncum L.
Family: Piperaceae
Determiner: K.Pomoh (12 Feb 2014)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   NS2A0118   
Date: 2014-02-12
Verbatim Date: 17 Oct 2013
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang, Numba
-5.7222  145.2714
Elevation: 1200 meters (3936ft)
Habitat: Secondary lower montane forest
Description: tree, to 11.7 m in height, DBH 6.6 cm, trunk height to foliage 5.3 m, crown height 6.4 m, crown width 2.5 m; foliage 1 kg mature wet mass, 0.1296 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, with lenticels; fissures vertical, narrow; bark brown, light brown, white, grey; cambium light brown, orange, red, white; 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: 1ca594ea-3b35-424a-b5eb-90fbe6433959
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