Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #:
WS4D0863
Occurrence ID (GUID):
a9e83304-b5fe-47b2-bf94-3e85e1afc5d0
Taxon:Nauclea orientalis (L.) L. Family: Rubiaceae
Determiner: Z. Ezedin (10 Jul 2021)
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Collector:
Binatang Research Center WS4D0863
Date: 2021-07-10
Verbatim Date: 07 Mar 2007
Locality:
Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583 145.178467
Elevation:
115 meters
(377ft)
Habitat:
Secondary lowland rainforest
Description:
tree, to 16.9 m in height, DBH 12.2 cm, trunk height to foliage 12.65 m, crown height 4.25 m, crown width 5.5 m; foliage 9 kg mature wet mass, 0.1262 kg juvenile wet mass; fissures vertical, broad; bark brown, white; cambium brown; wood light brown, white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: birr Local use: timber for house construction, used to make wooden plates