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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS5C0738
Occurrence ID (GUID): d7fdeaec-806f-47b8-ae2b-2eb216159464
Taxon: Commersonia bartramia (L.) Merrill
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: T. Whitfeld (24 Nov 2009)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS5C0738   
Date: 2009-11-24
Verbatim Date: 17 Nov 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 20.46 m in height, DBH 16.5 cm, trunk height to foliage 13.1 m, crown height 7.36 m, crown width 7.77 m, buttresses up to 0.4 m; foliage 7.2 kg mature wet mass, 0.1745 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical; bark black, dark brown, brown, orange, white, green; cambium brown; wood light brown, white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, 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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