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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP2A0518
Occurrence ID (GUID): ab4a0e1e-6468-4a45-bd6e-b60de352c630
Taxon: Gnetum gnemon L.
Family: Gnetaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (22 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP2A0518   
Date: 2007-07-22
Verbatim Date: 03 Apr 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 23.25 m in height, DBH 30.9 cm, trunk height to foliage 8.25 m, crown height 15 m, crown width 5 m, buttresses up to 0.3 m; foliage 30.4 kg mature wet mass, 0.1066 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough, with lenticels; fissures vertical, horizontal, narrow; bark dark brown, brown, light brown; cambium brown, light brown; wood brown, light brown, yellow; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, 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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