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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS1A0002
Occurrence ID (GUID): d6d32303-d053-47af-9821-72f75d833d9b
Taxon: Commersonia bartramia (L.) Merrill
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: T. Whitfeld (24 Nov 2009)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS1A0002   
Date: 2009-11-24
Verbatim Date: 27 Feb 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 11.45 m in height, DBH 7.4 cm, trunk height to foliage 5.9 m, crown height 5.55 m, crown width 4.7 m; foliage 0.9 kg mature wet mass, 0.0697 kg juvenile wet mass; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: makal gubung Local use: timber for house construction, leaves used for wrapping smoked leaves, used for construction of small huts and tables
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