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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS3C0659
Occurrence ID (GUID): ef3d45eb-2ad2-463b-bcb3-a7e456fe8883
Taxon: Commersonia bartramia (L.) Merrill
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: T. Whitfeld (24 Nov 2009)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS3C0659   
Date: 2009-11-24
Verbatim Date: 06 Dec 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 9.85 m in height, DBH 6.6 cm, trunk height to foliage 5 m, crown height 4.85 m, crown width 2.9 m; foliage 1.5 kg mature wet mass, 0.1134 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough, flaky, with lenticels; fissures vertical, broad, narrow; bark black, dark brown, brown, pink, white, grey; cambium dark brown, brown; wood brown, light brown, white, grey; 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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