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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: NS2A0053
Occurrence ID (GUID): fcc6f4f3-b76e-448b-a102-53de8c097364
Taxon: Piper aduncum L.
Family: Piperaceae
Determiner: K. Molem (07 Feb 2014)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   NS2A0053   
Date: 2014-02-07
Verbatim Date: 15 Oct 2013
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang, Numba
-5.7222  145.2714
Elevation: 1200 meters (3936ft)
Habitat: Secondary lower montane forest
Description: tree, to 6.75 m in height, DBH 5.3 cm, trunk height to foliage 2.65 m, crown height 4.1 m, crown width 1.56 m; foliage 0.0824 kg mature wet mass; outer bark rough, with lenticels; fissures vertical, narrow; bark brown, green; cambium brown, light brown, white, cream; wood brown, light brown, white, cream; exudate white; 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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