Full Record Details

Catalog #: YS3J0104

Occurrence ID: bf25b66e-0737-44c7-976b-127b531c1a7a

Family: Urticaceae

Observer: Binatang Research Center

Number: YS3J0104

Date: 2013-01-22

Verbatim Date: 21 Nov 2012

Locality: Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan

Latitude/Longitude: -6.164683  146.841717

Elevation: 1855 meters (6084ft)

Habitat: Secondary montane rainforest

Description: to 14.4 m in height, DBH 16 cm, trunk height to foliage 7.7 m, crown height 6.7 m, crown width 4.6 m; foliage 8 kg mature wet mass, 0.25 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical, narrow; bark brown; cambium light brown; 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.