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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS1C0621
Occurrence ID (GUID): d80f4a44-8265-4ee8-9b4f-e4c1b46d71e5
Taxon: Commersonia bartramia (L.) Merrill
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: T. Whitfeld (24 Nov 2009)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS1C0621   
Date: 2009-11-24
Verbatim Date: 19 Feb 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 6.55 m in height, DBH 6 cm, trunk height to foliage 1.3 m, crown height 5.25 m, crown width 4.73 m; foliage 3.5 kg mature wet mass, 0.2525 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough; fissures vertical, narrow; bark brown, light brown, white, grey; cambium brown, light brown, red; wood light brown, white; 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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