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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP4A0983
Occurrence ID (GUID): 3989ba0a-8305-40a0-9ccb-f97e445d1728
Taxon: Gnetum gnemon L.
Family: Gnetaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (14 Nov 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP4A0983   
Date: 2007-11-14
Verbatim Date: 24 Aug 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 12.84 m in height, DBH 7.8 cm, trunk height to foliage 5.32 m, crown height 7.52 m, crown width 4.15 m; foliage 2.8 kg mature wet mass, 0.1283 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark flaky, with lenticels; fissures broad; bark brown, green; cambium brown; wood brown; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: kunu Local use: fruits and young leaves are cooked for food, bark used for making bilum
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