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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS2B0515
Occurrence ID (GUID): 87bbc31c-e5fe-449f-bcc3-b45020aaf373
Taxon: Commersonia bartramia (L.) Merrill
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: T. Whitfeld (24 Nov 2009)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS2B0515   
Date: 2009-11-24
Verbatim Date: 29 Aug 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 14.58 m in height, DBH 16.4 cm, trunk height to foliage 3.33 m, crown height 11.25 m, crown width 7 m; foliage 14.2 kg mature wet mass, 0.313 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, with lenticels; fissures vertical, horizontal, narrow; bark dark brown, white; cambium dark brown; wood dark brown, brown, light brown; 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: 87bbc31c-e5fe-449f-bcc3-b45020aaf373
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