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Taxon: Piper aduncum L.
Family: Piperaceae

Collector: Binatang Research Center   YS2F0216   

Date: 2011-03-18

Verbatim Date: 22 Jul 2010

Locality: Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan

-6.16255  146.839933

Elevation: 1721 meters (5645ft)

Habitat: Secondary montane rainforest

Description: tree, to 8.7 m in height, DBH 5.5 cm, trunk height to foliage 4 m, crown height 4.7 m, crown width 1.8 m; foliage 1.3 kg mature wet mass, 0.0479 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, with lenticels; fissures vertical, narrow; bark grey; cambium white, green; wood light brown, white; exudate absent, from felled plot. Local name: karua Local use: stems used in garden fencing and in constuction of temporary shelters; firewood

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