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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP5E1366
Occurrence ID (GUID): ac21cb64-d2fd-469f-acd3-49b5aa75ab25
Taxon: Gnetum gnemon L.
Family: Gnetaceae
Determiner: K. Molem (23 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP5E1366   
Date: 2007-07-23
Verbatim Date: 24 Apr 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 9.85 m in height, DBH 5.3 cm, trunk height to foliage 6.2 m, crown height 3.65 m, crown width 2.82 m; foliage 1.6 kg mature wet mass, 0.0391 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, rough, with lenticels; fissures vertical, horizontal, broad, narrow; bark black, dark brown, brown, yellow, white; cambium brown, light brown, white; wood brown, light brown, white; 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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