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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS5B0364
Occurrence ID (GUID): c9e869f6-4167-413e-ac06-057c576a7095
Taxon: Sterculia ampla Baker f.
Family: Malvaceae
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS5B0364   
Date: 2006-11-08
Verbatim Date: 08 Nov 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 10.67 m in height, DBH 8.6 cm, trunk height to foliage 8.57 m, crown height 2.1 m, crown width 2.25 m; foliage 2.8 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures broad; bark brown, white, green; cambium brown; wood light brown, white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: gulerum Local use: used for roofing in huts, leaves used for wrapping, timber for house construction, used for construction of canoes
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Record Id: c9e869f6-4167-413e-ac06-057c576a7095
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