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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: YP3B0153
Occurrence ID (GUID): e7d4512e-51d4-4870-a48a-b3a0e1088b5c
Taxon: Dicksonia sciurus C.Chr.
Family: Dicksoniaceae
Determiner: J. Valeba (25 Apr 2013)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   YP3B0153   
Date: 2013-04-25
Verbatim Date: 08 Oct 2012
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan
-6.1637  146.842017
Elevation: 1749 meters (5737ft)
Habitat: Primary montane rainforest
Description: palm, to 2.72 m in height, DBH 8 cm, trunk height to foliage 1.5 m, crown height 1.22 m, crown width 1 m,0.042 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough, with lenticels; bark brown; cambium black; wood yellow; exudate white; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: kaminge; imondim Local use: edible young leaves; shoots used as bait when hunting tree kangaroos
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Record Id: e7d4512e-51d4-4870-a48a-b3a0e1088b5c
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