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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS5D0808
Occurrence ID (GUID): 8426c45a-afa6-4474-aeab-408ed9d86a61
Taxon: Ficus wassa Roxb
Family: Moraceae
Determiner: K. Damas (20 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS5D0808   
Date: 2007-07-20
Verbatim Date: 24 Feb 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 5.62 m in height, DBH 8.2 cm, trunk height to foliage 1 m, crown height 4.62 m, crown width 4.95 m; foliage 3.5 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough; fissures horizontal, narrow; bark dark brown, grey, green; cambium yellow, red, white; wood yellow, red, white; exudate white; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: kusakam Local use: leaves used as steel wool, young leaves are cooked and eaten
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