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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP2C0463
Occurrence ID (GUID): 7fcf2221-f199-42fe-b8d5-a8a193df6299
Taxon: Gnetum gnemon L.
Family: Gnetaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (21 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP2C0463   
Date: 2007-07-21
Verbatim Date: 01 Jun 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 10.9 m in height, DBH 9.7 cm, trunk height to foliage 5.1 m, crown height 5.8 m, crown width 3.9 m; foliage 1.3 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical; bark brown; cambium light brown; wood black, 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: 7fcf2221-f199-42fe-b8d5-a8a193df6299
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