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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS1B0591
Occurrence ID (GUID): 30c32737-475b-4760-bd1e-f4c72ab7fb08
Taxon: Commersonia bartramia (L.) Merrill
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: T. Whitfeld (24 Nov 2009)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS1B0591   
Date: 2009-11-24
Verbatim Date: 22 Jul 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 15.15 m in height, DBH 14.5 cm, trunk height to foliage 4.9 m, crown height 10.25 m, crown width 5.55 m, buttresses up to 0.2 m; foliage 6.6 kg mature wet mass, 0.3891 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical; bark dark brown, brown, white, green; cambium brown; wood light brown, white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, 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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Record Id: 30c32737-475b-4760-bd1e-f4c72ab7fb08
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