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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: NS2A0074
Occurrence ID (GUID): 7f125900-a379-4579-8f04-911b8bdfcc3c
Taxon: Piper aduncum L.
Family: Piperaceae
Determiner: K.Pomoh (13 Feb 2014)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   NS2A0074   
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 11.86 m in height, DBH 11 cm, trunk height to foliage 4.9 m, crown height 6.96 m, crown width 3.3 m; foliage 5 kg mature wet mass, 0.2625 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, with lenticels; fissures narrow; bark white, green; cambium 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: 7f125900-a379-4579-8f04-911b8bdfcc3c
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