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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS1E0969
Occurrence ID (GUID): 6079dceb-30ab-4132-96c7-4620600e280c
Taxon: Ficus wassa Roxb
Family: Moraceae
Determiner: K. Damas (22 Nov 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS1E0969   
Date: 2007-11-22
Verbatim Date: 24 Jul 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 7.26 m in height, DBH 5.6 cm, trunk height to foliage 2.16 m, crown height 5.1 m, crown width 2.5 m; foliage 4 kg mature wet mass, 0.1043 kg juvenile wet mass; bark white, grey; cambium orange; wood orange, white; exudate white; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: kusakam Local use: leaves used as steel wool, young leaves are cooked and eaten
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Record Id: 6079dceb-30ab-4132-96c7-4620600e280c
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