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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS1C0622
Occurrence ID (GUID): 0422e919-62ae-413e-a9b7-42688851bf1e
Taxon: Commersonia bartramia (L.) Merrill
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: T. Whitfeld (24 Nov 2009)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS1C0622   
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 8.89 m in height, DBH 6 cm, trunk height to foliage 2.23 m, crown height 6.66 m, crown width 5.05 m; foliage 6.5 kg mature wet mass, 0.467 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough; fissures vertical, narrow; bark brown, light brown, white, grey; cambium brown, light brown; 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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Record Id: 0422e919-62ae-413e-a9b7-42688851bf1e
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