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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP4A1047
Occurrence ID (GUID): 951ae4fd-f980-4955-898d-8ce9b2b11d5c
Taxon: Sterculia ampla Baker f.
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (13 Nov 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP4A1047   
Date: 2007-11-13
Verbatim Date: 22 Aug 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 11.25 m in height, DBH 6.4 cm, trunk height to foliage 9.8 m, crown height 1.45 m, crown width 2.64 m; foliage 1 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; bark brown, grey; cambium white; wood white; 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: 951ae4fd-f980-4955-898d-8ce9b2b11d5c
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