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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS4E1145
Occurrence ID (GUID): 18cca675-b1fc-44d7-be02-84c24ed30317
Taxon: Commersonia bartramia (L.) Merrill
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: T. Whitfeld (24 Nov 2009)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS4E1145   
Date: 2009-11-24
Verbatim Date: 19 Sep 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 16.11 m in height, DBH 11.3 cm, trunk height to foliage 1.22 m, crown height 14.89 m, crown width 8.78 m, buttresses up to 0.25 m; foliage 5 kg mature wet mass, 0.022 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, rough, with lenticels; bark black, dark brown, brown, light brown, grey; cambium brown, light brown; wood brown, light brown; 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: 18cca675-b1fc-44d7-be02-84c24ed30317
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