Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #:
WS5C0765
Occurrence ID (GUID):
b1055a02-67c0-48ac-800c-0e5f8a1b353c
Taxon:Nauclea orientalis (L.) L. Family: Rubiaceae
Determiner: Z. Ezedin (10 Jul 2021)
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Collector:
Binatang Research Center WS5C0765
Date: 2021-07-10
Verbatim Date: 21 Nov 2006
Locality:
Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583 145.178467
Elevation:
115 meters
(377ft)
Habitat:
Secondary lowland rainforest
Description:
tree, to 9.7 m in height, DBH 7.1 cm, trunk height to foliage 8.9 m, crown height 0.8 m, crown width 4.4 m; foliage 0.8 kg mature wet mass, 0.0568 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical; bark brown, white; cambium brown; wood light brown, white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: birr Local use: timber for house construction, used to make wooden plates