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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP2E0265
Occurrence ID (GUID): b7d0cbfa-bb4a-4930-942a-f748c0516fa3
Taxon: Omphalea papuana Pax & K. Hoffm.
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (21 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP2E0265   
Date: 2007-07-21
Verbatim Date: 14 Sep 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: climber, to 36.75 m in height, DBH 9 cm, trunk height to foliage 25.4 m, crown height 11.35 m, crown width 17.25 m; foliage 0 kg mature wet mass, 0.054 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, rough, with lenticels; fissures vertical, horizontal, broad, narrow; bark black, dark brown, brown, grey; cambium brown, light brown, white; wood light brown, white, grey; exudate white; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: quaba simi Local use: fruits are edible, seeds used for medicine
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Record Id: b7d0cbfa-bb4a-4930-942a-f748c0516fa3
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