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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: YP4B0245
Occurrence ID (GUID): 215f1a9d-397b-4d6a-80db-290bd5baf6a5
Taxon: Dendrocnide cordata
Family: Urticaceae
Determiner: K. Molem (11 Apr 2013)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   YP4B0245   
Date: 2013-04-11
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: tree, to 15.27 m in height, DBH 21.7 cm, trunk height to foliage 13.27 m, crown height 2 m, crown width 5.6 m, buttresses up to 1.3 m; foliage 2 kg mature wet mass, 0.01 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical, narrow; bark white; cambium white; wood white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: bomot Local use: leaves used to cover bamboo water containers; sap applied to heal the sores of dogs
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Record Id: 215f1a9d-397b-4d6a-80db-290bd5baf6a5
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