NGBRC
Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #:
YP3B0124
Occurrence ID (GUID):
111062d8-9cb0-4299-8163-b396b794ab05
Taxon:
Heterospathe muelleriana (Becc.) Becc.
Family: Arecaceae
Family: Arecaceae
Determiner: K. Molem (12 Feb 2013)
Collector:
Binatang Research Center YP3B0124
Date: 2013-02-12
Verbatim Date: 09 Oct 2012
Locality:
Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan
-6.1637 146.842017
Elevation:
1749 meters
(5737ft)
Habitat:
Primary montane rainforest
Description:
palm, to 8.45 m in height, DBH 12.7 cm, trunk height to foliage 2.9 m, crown height 5.55 m, crown width 5 m; foliage 5 kg mature wet mass, 0.1 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth; fissures vertical, narrow; bark light brown, green; cambium white; 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: 111062d8-9cb0-4299-8163-b396b794ab05
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