Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #:
WS2D0932
Occurrence ID (GUID):
842e1246-bd59-4167-af68-7610fd033db9
Taxon:Nauclea orientalis (L.) L. Family: Rubiaceae
Determiner: Z. Ezedin (10 Jul 2021)
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Collector:
Binatang Research Center WS2D0932
Date: 2021-07-10
Verbatim Date: 30 May 2007
Locality:
Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583 145.178467
Elevation:
115 meters
(377ft)
Habitat:
Secondary lowland rainforest
Description:
tree, to 12.04 m in height, DBH 12.9 cm, trunk height to foliage 4.55 m, crown height 7.49 m, crown width 5.54 m; foliage 16.8 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark flaky, with lenticels; fissures vertical, broad; bark brown, light brown; cambium brown; wood light brown, white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: birr Local use: timber for house construction, used to make wooden plates