NGBRC
Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #:
YP3C0207
Occurrence ID (GUID):
7eba3d8b-4152-4748-a6ba-a2fe536a612d
Taxon:
Heterospathe muelleriana (Becc.) Becc.
Family: Arecaceae
Family: Arecaceae
Determiner: H. Nowatuo (18 Feb 2013)
Collector:
Binatang Research Center YP3C0207
Date: 2013-02-18
Verbatim Date: 03 Apr 2012
Locality:
Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan
-6.163017 146.842983
Elevation:
1732 meters
(5681ft)
Habitat:
Primary montane rainforest
Description:
tree, to 6.2 m in height, DBH 7.3 cm, trunk height to foliage 1.7 m, crown height 4.5 m, crown width 2.4 m; foliage 3 kg mature wet mass, 0.229 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth; fissures horizontal; bark brown; 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: 7eba3d8b-4152-4748-a6ba-a2fe536a612d
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