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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: YP4B0189
Occurrence ID (GUID): 80228e76-037f-4b6f-b1ef-08bbf918c9e5
Taxon: Heterospathe muelleriana (Becc.) Becc.
Family: Arecaceae
Collector: Binatang Research Center   YP4B0189   
Date: 2012-10-19
Verbatim Date: 19 Oct 2012
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan
-6.1637  146.842017
Elevation: 1749 meters (5737ft)
Habitat: Primary montane rainforest
Description: palm, to 9.15 m in height, DBH 15.4 cm, trunk height to foliage 3.15 m, crown height 6 m, crown width 4.9 m; foliage 8 kg mature wet mass, 0.01655 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth; fissures vertical, narrow; bark white, 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
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Record Id: 80228e76-037f-4b6f-b1ef-08bbf918c9e5
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