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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS5E1189
Occurrence ID (GUID): 84c3aaac-8870-408f-944f-a1ccea46bef2
Taxon: Celtis philippensis Bl.
Family: Cannabaceae
Determiner: K. Fazang (17 Jan 2008)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS5E1189   
Date: 2008-01-17
Verbatim Date: 23 Oct 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 11 m in height, DBH 6.5 cm, trunk height to foliage 7.88 m, crown height 3.12 m, crown width 1.4 m; foliage 0.4 kg mature wet mass, 0.026 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth; fissures vertical; bark brown; cambium brown, light brown, white; wood light brown, white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: nimung Local use: used for construction of small huts, leaves are chewed with betel nut, saplings used for roofing
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Record Id: 84c3aaac-8870-408f-944f-a1ccea46bef2
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