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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: NS3A0122
Occurrence ID (GUID): 1038dd0a-c792-45bf-bb11-aaefd1851b6f
Taxon: Musa peekelii Lauterb.
Family: Musaceae
Determiner: K. Molem (13 Feb 2014)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   NS3A0122   
Date: 2014-02-13
Verbatim Date: 26 Oct 2013
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang, Numba
-5.7222  145.2714
Elevation: 1200 meters (3936ft)
Habitat: Secondary lower montane forest
Description: Banana, to 12.3 m in height, DBH 20.8 cm, trunk height to foliage 7.6 m, crown height 4.7 m, crown width 3.5 m; foliage 8 kg mature wet mass, 0.7194 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, flaky; fissures vertical, narrow; bark black, dark brown, brown, grey, green; cambium dark brown, brown, light brown, yellow, white, cream, grey; wood yellow, white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: kina Local use: Edible leaves, fruit, and young shoots
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Record Id: 1038dd0a-c792-45bf-bb11-aaefd1851b6f
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