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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS4B0432
Occurrence ID (GUID): 8356ab11-98ca-43cc-acc4-26858e603a04
Taxon: Commersonia bartramia (L.) Merrill
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: T. Whitfeld (24 Nov 2009)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS4B0432   
Date: 2009-11-24
Verbatim Date: 19 Oct 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 13.35 m in height, DBH 11.4 cm, trunk height to foliage 2.65 m, crown height 10.7 m, crown width 5.5 m; foliage 4.6 kg mature wet mass, 0.4036 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical; bark dark brown, brown, white, green; cambium brown; 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: 8356ab11-98ca-43cc-acc4-26858e603a04
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