NGBRC
Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP5D1222
Occurrence ID (GUID): a2523b51-2f8e-4135-bb64-c0814f33c941
Taxon: Sterculia tantrae Morat
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: Z. Ezedin (10 Jul 2021)
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Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP5D1222   
Date: 2021-07-10
Verbatim Date: 12 May 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 24.59 m in height, DBH 27.4 cm, trunk height to foliage 9.4 m, crown height 15.19 m, crown width 5.99 m, buttresses up to 0.65 m; foliage 39.2 kg mature wet mass, 0.9692 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark flaky, with lenticels; fissures vertical; bark brown, light brown, green; cambium brown; wood light brown, white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: alamé Local use: nuts are gathered for food
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Record Id: a2523b51-2f8e-4135-bb64-c0814f33c941
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