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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: NS3A0133
Occurrence ID (GUID): 85cd8a6c-0c5a-47f1-a79d-e506a594b1fe
Taxon: Piper aduncum L.
Family: Piperaceae
Determiner: K. Fazang (14 Feb 2014)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   NS3A0133   
Date: 2014-02-14
Verbatim Date: 25 Oct 2013
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang, Numba
-5.7222  145.2714
Elevation: 1200 meters (3936ft)
Habitat: Secondary lower montane forest
Description: tree, to 9.6 m in height, trunk height to foliage 0.6 m, crown height 9 m, crown width 0.9 m; foliage 0.287 kg mature wet mass, 18.6 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, with lenticels; fissures vertical, narrow; bark brown, grey, green; cambium light brown, orange, red, white; wood light brown, yellow, white, cream; 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: 85cd8a6c-0c5a-47f1-a79d-e506a594b1fe
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