Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #:
WS2E0984
Occurrence ID (GUID):
8ab72393-aef3-43ef-a341-6ed770fde945
Taxon:Nauclea orientalis (L.) L. Family: Rubiaceae
Determiner: Z. Ezedin (10 Jul 2021)
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Collector:
Binatang Research Center WS2E0984
Date: 2021-07-10
Verbatim Date: 04 Aug 2007
Locality:
Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583 145.178467
Elevation:
115 meters
(377ft)
Habitat:
Secondary lowland rainforest
Description:
tree, to 17.77 m in height, DBH 17.8 cm, trunk height to foliage 12.42 m, crown height 5.35 m, crown width 5.65 m, buttresses up to 0.45 m; foliage 19.2 kg mature wet mass, 0.2068 kg juvenile wet mass; fissures vertical, narrow; bark brown, grey; cambium orange; wood yellow; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: birr Local use: timber for house construction, used to make wooden plates