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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS3B0498
Occurrence ID (GUID): 66de6c50-4616-433f-92e0-9d0d873831b8
Taxon: Commersonia bartramia (L.) Merrill
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: T. Whitfeld (24 Nov 2009)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS3B0498   
Date: 2009-11-24
Verbatim Date: 10 Oct 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 12.35 m in height, DBH 8.1 cm, trunk height to foliage 7.6 m, crown height 4.75 m, crown width 4.82 m; foliage 3 kg mature wet mass, 0.1468 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough, with lenticels; bark brown, white; cambium brown; wood light brown; 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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Record Id: 66de6c50-4616-433f-92e0-9d0d873831b8
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