NGBRC
Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS2C0624
Occurrence ID (GUID): b7017ab9-53fa-498a-b9e8-66fcfb7141a0
Taxon: Commersonia bartramia (L.) Merrill
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: T. Whitfeld (24 Nov 2009)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS2C0624   
Date: 2009-11-24
Verbatim Date: 30 Jan 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 16.56 m in height, DBH 19.8 cm, trunk height to foliage 1.77 m, crown height 14.79 m, crown width 7.77 m, buttresses up to 0.4 m; foliage 17 kg mature wet mass, 0.4984 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, rough, flaky, with lenticels; fissures broad; bark black, dark brown, brown, light brown, pink, white, grey, green; cambium dark brown, brown, light brown; wood dark brown, brown, light brown, white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, 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: b7017ab9-53fa-498a-b9e8-66fcfb7141a0
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