NGBRC
Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #:
YP2C0139
Occurrence ID (GUID):
c94efe75-83a0-4f5b-a692-b253b308e98f
Taxon:
Heterospathe muelleriana (Becc.) Becc.
Family: Arecaceae
Family: Arecaceae
Collector:
Binatang Research Center YP2C0139
Date: 2011-02-28
Verbatim Date: 28 Feb 2011
Locality:
Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan
-6.163017 146.842983
Elevation:
1732 meters
(5681ft)
Habitat:
Primary montane rainforest
Description:
palm, to 24.76 m in height, DBH 14.3 cm, trunk height to foliage 20.36 m, crown height 4.4 m, crown width 6.1 m; foliage 14 kg mature wet mass, 1.0434 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth; fissures vertical, narrow; bark white, cream, grey; cambium light brown; wood light brown; 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: c94efe75-83a0-4f5b-a692-b253b308e98f
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