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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS4C0705
Occurrence ID (GUID): 7fe2eac5-1666-4677-9757-fc01bd9134f1
Taxon: Ficus wassa Roxb
Family: Moraceae
Determiner: K. Molem (20 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS4C0705   
Date: 2007-07-20
Verbatim Date: 28 Nov 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 5.85 m in height, DBH 5.7 cm, trunk height to foliage 2.55 m, crown height 3.3 m, crown width 4.35 m; foliage 3 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, rough; fissures horizontal, broad; bark black, dark brown, white, cream, grey; cambium white, grey; wood dark brown, brown, light brown, white, grey; exudate white; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: kusakam Local use: leaves used as steel wool, young leaves are cooked and eaten
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