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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP3C0665
Occurrence ID (GUID): 8927d8d9-d653-4c75-b449-a0836a1f4da5
Taxon: Sterculia ampla Baker f.
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (23 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP3C0665   
Date: 2007-07-23
Verbatim Date: 02 Apr 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 11.18 m in height, DBH 7.1 cm, trunk height to foliage 9.73 m, crown height 1.45 m, crown width 2.12 m; foliage 2 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, rough, with lenticels; fissures vertical, horizontal, broad; bark black, dark brown, brown, grey; cambium dark brown, brown, light brown, white; wood brown, light brown, 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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Record Id: 8927d8d9-d653-4c75-b449-a0836a1f4da5
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