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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP3D0686
Occurrence ID (GUID): 9f2753b0-3057-4421-b67f-2fc05babfbba
Taxon: Celtis philippensis Bl.
Family: Cannabaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (23 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP3D0686   
Date: 2007-07-23
Verbatim Date: 27 Mar 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 20.53 m in height, DBH 12.6 cm, trunk height to foliage 11.15 m, crown height 9.38 m, crown width 4.12 m, buttresses up to 0.4 m; foliage 5 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, rough, with lenticels; fissures horizontal, broad; bark black, dark brown, pink, grey; cambium black, dark brown, green; wood black, dark brown, brown, light brown, white, green; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: nimung Local use: used for construction of small huts, leaves are chewed with betel nut, saplings used for roofing
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Record Id: 9f2753b0-3057-4421-b67f-2fc05babfbba
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