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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS2B0554
Occurrence ID (GUID): 3c80bb39-dfe2-44ed-abb0-c3740de43394
Taxon: Commersonia bartramia (L.) Merrill
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: T. Whitfeld (24 Nov 2009)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS2B0554   
Date: 2009-11-24
Verbatim Date: 25 Aug 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 12.55 m in height, DBH 8 cm, trunk height to foliage 6.95 m, crown height 5.6 m, crown width 3.8 m; foliage 2.1 kg mature wet mass, 0.0594 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough, flaky; fissures vertical, narrow; bark brown, light brown, white, green; cambium light brown, white, green; wood light brown, yellow, 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: 3c80bb39-dfe2-44ed-abb0-c3740de43394
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