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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: NS1A0044
Occurrence ID (GUID): a2e3b7ad-3271-4ec1-829b-17262a80ca3e
Taxon: Piper aduncum L.
Family: Piperaceae
Determiner: K. Molem (10 Feb 2014)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   NS1A0044   
Date: 2014-02-10
Verbatim Date: 05 Oct 2013
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang, Numba
-5.7222  145.2714
Elevation: 1200 meters (3936ft)
Habitat: Secondary lower montane forest
Description: tree, to 10.5 m in height, DBH 14.4 cm, trunk height to foliage 4.2 m, crown height 6.3 m, crown width 3.3 m; foliage 5.5 kg mature wet mass, 0.3845 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough, with lenticels; fissures vertical, narrow; bark brown, green; cambium brown, light brown, white, cream; wood dark brown, brown, light brown, white, cream; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, 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: a2e3b7ad-3271-4ec1-829b-17262a80ca3e
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