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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: NS3A0161
Occurrence ID (GUID): 655fee18-6fc2-44c7-a5ad-6a1c0cbe0508
Taxon: Piper aduncum L.
Family: Piperaceae
Determiner: M. Rimandai (14 Feb 2014)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   NS3A0161   
Date: 2014-02-14
Verbatim Date: 28 Oct 2013
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang, Numba
-5.7222  145.2714
Elevation: 1200 meters (3936ft)
Habitat: Secondary lower montane forest
Description: tree, to 10.2 m in height, DBH 11.7 cm, trunk height to foliage 2.1 m, crown height 8.1 m, crown width 4.2 m; foliage 6 kg mature wet mass, 0.3337 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, with lenticels; fissures vertical, narrow; bark dark brown, brown, white, grey, green; cambium light brown, orange, yellow, red, white; wood light brown, 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: 655fee18-6fc2-44c7-a5ad-6a1c0cbe0508
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