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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: YP2C0124
Occurrence ID (GUID): 1061b7fb-fccb-47e3-9676-f324eb418ec5
Taxon: Heterospathe muelleriana (Becc.) Becc.
Family: Arecaceae
Determiner: S. Senart (17 Aug 2011)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   YP2C0124   
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 9.6 m in height, DBH 10.8 cm, trunk height to foliage 3.6 m, crown height 6 m, crown width 3.4 m; foliage 5 kg mature wet mass, 0.2974 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth; fissures vertical, narrow; bark brown, green; cambium white, cream; wood white, cream; 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
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Record Id: 1061b7fb-fccb-47e3-9676-f324eb418ec5
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