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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP1C0134
Occurrence ID (GUID): d53f63b3-38d2-42b2-8470-b373d2b0da49
Taxon: Celtis philippensis Bl.
Family: Cannabaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (22 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP1C0134   
Date: 2007-07-22
Verbatim Date: 01 Jul 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 38.89 m in height, DBH 43 cm, trunk height to foliage 27.54 m, crown height 11.35 m, crown width 4.45 m, buttresses up to 1.55 m; foliage 25.4 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough, with lenticels; fissures vertical, horizontal, broad, narrow; bark dark brown, brown, light brown, white, grey; cambium dark brown, brown, light brown, grey, green; wood brown, light brown, grey; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: nimung Local use: used for construction of small huts, leaves are chewed with betel nut, saplings used for roofing
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