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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #:
YP2A0090
Occurrence ID (GUID):
3ed52626-031f-4c93-acf0-e620e5abba5d
Taxon:
Heterospathe muelleriana (Becc.) Becc.
Family: Arecaceae
Family: Arecaceae
Collector:
Binatang Research Center YP2A0090
Date: 2010-10-09
Verbatim Date: 09 Oct 2010
Locality:
Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan
-6.162617 146.841967
Elevation:
1777 meters
(5829ft)
Habitat:
Primary montane rainforest
Description:
palm, to 11.01 m in height, DBH 10.7 cm, trunk height to foliage 5.48 m, crown height 5.53 m, crown width 4.44 m; foliage 4 kg mature wet mass, 0.4265 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth; fissures vertical, narrow; bark black, brown, green; cambium brown; wood white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, 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: 3ed52626-031f-4c93-acf0-e620e5abba5d
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