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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS2C0644
Occurrence ID (GUID): 8a8fcb8c-52a9-4667-a8e0-8a67f4ac6e45
Taxon: Commersonia bartramia (L.) Merrill
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: T. Whitfeld (24 Nov 2009)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS2C0644   
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 11.47 m in height, DBH 12.6 cm, trunk height to foliage 1.5 m, crown height 9.97 m, crown width 7.3 m; foliage 8 kg mature wet mass, 0.2323 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough, with lenticels; fissures horizontal; bark black, brown, light brown, pink, white, green; cambium dark brown, brown; wood dark brown, brown, 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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