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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP1E0234
Occurrence ID (GUID): 1f87ac35-c278-4973-94d9-76a9e6ace63b
Taxon: Licuala beccariana Burret
Family: Arecaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (16 Jan 2008)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP1E0234   
Date: 2008-01-16
Verbatim Date: 04 Aug 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: Palm, to 8.1 m in height, DBH 6.7 cm, trunk height to foliage 3.45 m, crown height 4.65 m, crown width 4.7 m; foliage 6.4 kg mature wet mass, 0.1666 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough; fissures vertical, horizontal, broad, narrow; bark grey; cambium light brown, grey; wood black, light brown, grey; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: sandu Local use: leaves used for house roofing, used for bow making
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