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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP2B0493
Occurrence ID (GUID): cb285c39-a907-4c35-b92b-fde66b4544ed
Taxon: Sterculia ampla Baker f.
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (21 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP2B0493   
Date: 2007-07-21
Verbatim Date: 04 May 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 21.74 m in height, DBH 13.8 cm, trunk height to foliage 17.4 m, crown height 4.34 m, crown width 3.63 m, buttresses up to 0.5 m; foliage 2 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, with lenticels; cambium brown, white; wood white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: gulerum Local use: used for roofing in huts, leaves used for wrapping, timber for house construction, used for construction of canoes
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