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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS3C0681
Occurrence ID (GUID): 0e7850c0-e2fe-48d9-ba69-1b29a7e7f779
Taxon: Commersonia bartramia (L.) Merrill
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: T. Whitfeld (24 Nov 2009)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS3C0681   
Date: 2009-11-24
Verbatim Date: 04 Dec 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 9.24 m in height, DBH 10.1 cm, trunk height to foliage 2.74 m, crown height 6.5 m, crown width 5.65 m; foliage 2.5 kg mature wet mass, 0.1264 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough; fissures horizontal, broad; bark black, dark brown, brown, pink, white, grey; cambium dark brown, brown, green; wood light brown, white; 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: 0e7850c0-e2fe-48d9-ba69-1b29a7e7f779
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