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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #:
YP1A0030
Occurrence ID (GUID):
5a80765c-9a3c-4118-a8a7-03a55131507a
Taxon:
Heterospathe muelleriana (Becc.) Becc.
Family: Arecaceae
Family: Arecaceae
Determiner: S. Senart (17 Aug 2011)
Collector:
Binatang Research Center YP1A0030
Date: 2011-08-17
Verbatim Date: 16 Sep 2010
Locality:
Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan
-6.162617 146.841967
Elevation:
1777 meters
(5829ft)
Habitat:
Primary montane rainforest
Description:
palm, to 11.64 m in height, DBH 14.7 cm, trunk height to foliage 4.5 m, crown height 7.14 m, crown width 5.16 m; foliage 8 kg mature wet mass, 0.6155 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, with lenticels; fissures vertical; bark black, brown, light brown, green; cambium brown, light brown; wood light brown, white; exudate white; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: katat Local use: edible young shoots; timber for flooring, bows and arrows; fruit chewed as a substituted for betelnut
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Record Id: 5a80765c-9a3c-4118-a8a7-03a55131507a
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