Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #:
WS3B0501
Occurrence ID (GUID):
31931e73-2db8-45c7-a423-6b49ab4a908a
Taxon:Nauclea orientalis (L.) L. Family: Rubiaceae
Determiner: Z. Ezedin (10 Jul 2021)
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Collector:
Binatang Research Center WS3B0501
Date: 2021-07-10
Verbatim Date: 09 Oct 2006
Locality:
Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583 145.178467
Elevation:
115 meters
(377ft)
Habitat:
Secondary lowland rainforest
Description:
tree, to 12.54 m in height, DBH 10.9 cm, trunk height to foliage 10 m, crown height 2.54 m, crown width 3.99 m; foliage 3.6 kg mature wet mass, 5.475 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough; fissures vertical, narrow; bark brown, white; cambium light brown; wood white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: birr Local use: timber for house construction, used to make wooden plates