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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP1C0127
Occurrence ID (GUID): 1f1fb80d-0f18-4e71-aa88-01a18852e195
Taxon: Gnetum gnemon L.
Family: Gnetaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (22 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP1C0127   
Date: 2007-07-22
Verbatim Date: 30 May 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 16.9 m in height, DBH 11.4 cm, trunk height to foliage 8.2 m, crown height 8.7 m, crown width 5 m; foliage 5 kg mature wet mass, 0.0652 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical; bark brown, white, green; cambium brown; wood light brown; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: kunu Local use: fruits and young leaves are cooked for food, bark used for making bilum
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Record Id: 1f1fb80d-0f18-4e71-aa88-01a18852e195
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