Minnesota Biodiversity Atlas - Occurrence Profile

Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center (NGBRC)

Catalog #: YS2J0079

Occurrence ID: 2cdee9de-0a8a-42e3-a5e9-b69e5df989fa

Taxon: Pipturus argenteus (G. Forst.) Wedd.

Family: Urticaceae

Determiner: K. Molem

Date Determined: 12 Feb 2013

Observer: Binatang Research Center

Number: YS2J0079

Date: 2013-02-12

Verbatim Date: 13 Nov 2012

Locality: Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan

Latitude/Longitude: -6.164683 146.841717

Elevation: 1855 meters (6084ft)

Habitat: Secondary montane rainforest

Description: tree, to 9.4 m in height, DBH 6 cm, trunk height to foliage 6 m, crown height 3.4 m, crown width 4.7 m; foliage 4 kg mature wet mass, 0.079 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical, narrow; bark black; cambium white; wood white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: Udan Local use: Firewood and wood shed; Fruit bait for birds; bark is used to manipulate hair and to make dread locks.

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