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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS5E1184
Occurrence ID (GUID): 55440d59-abbb-45a6-b179-d5b39a91744e
Taxon: Licuala beccariana Burret
Family: Arecaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (16 Jan 2008)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS5E1184   
Date: 2008-01-16
Verbatim Date: 25 Oct 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: Palm, to 5.11 m in height, DBH 5.8 cm, trunk height to foliage 1.31 m, crown height 3.8 m, crown width 3.3 m; foliage 3 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark flaky; fissures vertical; bark brown; cambium brown; wood brown, light brown; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: sandu Local use: leaves used for house roofing, used for bow making
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Record Id: 55440d59-abbb-45a6-b179-d5b39a91744e
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