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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #:
YP4B0194
Occurrence ID (GUID):
9da89161-99ce-4d5c-93de-190c6258bae3
Taxon:
Heterospathe muelleriana (Becc.) Becc.
Family: Arecaceae
Family: Arecaceae
Determiner: H. Nowatuo (19 Feb 2013)
Collector:
Binatang Research Center YP4B0194
Date: 2013-02-19
Verbatim Date: 22 Oct 2012
Locality:
Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan
-6.1637 146.842017
Elevation:
1749 meters
(5737ft)
Habitat:
Primary montane rainforest
Description:
palm, to 16.05 m in height, DBH 15.7 cm, trunk height to foliage 10.65 m, crown height 5.4 m, crown width 3.3 m; foliage 13 kg mature wet mass, 0.425 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth; fissures vertical, narrow; bark white, grey; cambium white; wood 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: 9da89161-99ce-4d5c-93de-190c6258bae3
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