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Taxon: Ficus adenosperma Miq.
Family: Moraceae

Collector: Binatang Research Center   YS4G0454   

Date: 2011-06-03

Verbatim Date: 28 Jan 2011

Locality: Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan

-6.1631  146.840217

Elevation: 1752 meters (5747ft)

Habitat: Secondary montane rainforest

Description: tree, to 9.69 m in height, DBH 5.9 cm, trunk height to foliage 5.69 m, crown height 4 m, crown width 2.8 m; foliage 1.5 kg mature wet mass, 0.0281 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical, horizontal, narrow; bark brown; cambium brown; wood white; exudate white; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: sumsum Local use: latex used as glue to attach dried aninmal skins to drums, for tuning drums, and on arrows; timber for fence construction and firewood

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Record Id: 5d6763d2-1f32-4b1d-b423-c43fdf69de12

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