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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP4A0975
Occurrence ID (GUID): a50e5899-cd6a-4c0f-a657-90cfbca21861
Taxon: Sterculia ampla Baker f.
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (14 Nov 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP4A0975   
Date: 2007-11-14
Verbatim Date: 28 Aug 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 11.23 m in height, DBH 6.5 cm, trunk height to foliage 9.73 m, crown height 1.5 m, crown width 1.85 m; foliage 0.236 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark flaky; fissures vertical, broad; bark brown, light brown; cambium brown; wood light brown; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, 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: a50e5899-cd6a-4c0f-a657-90cfbca21861
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