NGBRC
Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP2D0367
Occurrence ID (GUID): a68c96b8-45af-41ac-bd05-873ad4a764e6
Taxon: Horsfieldia basifissa De Wilde
Family: Myristicaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (22 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP2D0367   
Date: 2007-07-22
Verbatim Date: 15 Aug 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 6.54 m in height, DBH 6.6 cm, trunk height to foliage 4.94 m, crown height 1.6 m, crown width 2.95 m; foliage 1 kg mature wet mass, 0.0401 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical; bark brown, green; cambium brown; wood black, brown; exudate red; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: kapup ningi Local use: timber for house construction, used for construction of small tables and shelves
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Record Id: a68c96b8-45af-41ac-bd05-873ad4a764e6
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