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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #:
YP2C0111
Occurrence ID (GUID):
2a31dc02-30eb-4436-b731-1aa1842ffbe4
Taxon:
Heterospathe muelleriana (Becc.) Becc.
Family: Arecaceae
Family: Arecaceae
Determiner: S. Senart (17 Aug 2011)
Collector:
Binatang Research Center YP2C0111
Date: 2011-08-17
Verbatim Date: 17 Feb 2011
Locality:
Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan
-6.163017 146.842983
Elevation:
1732 meters
(5681ft)
Habitat:
Primary montane rainforest
Description:
palm, to 13.7 m in height, DBH 14.6 cm, trunk height to foliage 6.4 m, crown height 7.3 m, crown width 3.2 m; foliage 10 kg mature wet mass, 0.255 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth; fissures vertical, narrow; bark brown, grey; cambium green; wood light brown, 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: 2a31dc02-30eb-4436-b731-1aa1842ffbe4
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