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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS4D0892
Occurrence ID (GUID): 35766007-6bd3-4b01-a079-d7d18475b8ef
Taxon: Commersonia bartramia (L.) Merrill
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: T. Whitfeld (24 Nov 2009)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS4D0892   
Date: 2009-11-24
Verbatim Date: 10 Mar 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 17.8 m in height, DBH 11.1 cm, trunk height to foliage 9.4 m, crown height 8.4 m, crown width 4.41 m; foliage 4.5 kg mature wet mass, 0.2682 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark flaky, with lenticels; fissures vertical; bark black, brown, light brown, white; 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: 35766007-6bd3-4b01-a079-d7d18475b8ef
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