Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #:
WS4B0463
Occurrence ID (GUID):
ae5bae58-3ce7-48ef-80da-4d5e0b9407a2
Taxon:Nauclea orientalis (L.) L. Family: Rubiaceae
Determiner: Z. Ezedin (10 Jul 2021)
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Collector:
Binatang Research Center WS4B0463
Date: 2021-07-10
Verbatim Date: 14 Oct 2006
Locality:
Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583 145.178467
Elevation:
115 meters
(377ft)
Habitat:
Secondary lowland rainforest
Description:
tree, to 12.62 m in height, DBH 9.5 cm, trunk height to foliage 9.07 m, crown height 3.55 m, crown width 4.45 m; foliage 5.2 kg mature wet mass, 0.3497 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough; fissures vertical, broad, narrow; bark brown, light brown, white; cambium light brown; wood light brown; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: birr Local use: timber for house construction, used to make wooden plates