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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS5A0290
Occurrence ID (GUID): 2381ffa2-b039-46a6-a7eb-68426c37c86d
Taxon: Commersonia bartramia (L.) Merrill
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: T. Whitfeld (24 Nov 2009)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS5A0290   
Date: 2009-11-24
Verbatim Date: 27 Jun 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 8.14 m in height, DBH 9 cm, trunk height to foliage 3.59 m, crown height 4.55 m, crown width 1.6 m; foliage 0.4 kg mature wet mass, 0.1172 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough, with lenticels; bark black, dark brown, brown, light brown, green; cambium dark brown, brown, light brown; wood dark brown, 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: 2381ffa2-b039-46a6-a7eb-68426c37c86d
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