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Taxon: Ficus wassa Roxb
Family: Moraceae

Collector: Binatang Research Center   YS4K0213   

Date: 2013-02-13

Verbatim Date: 05 Nov 2012

Locality: Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan

-6.163883  146.838333

Elevation: 1723 meters (5651ft)

Habitat: Secondary montane rainforest

Description: tree, to 5 m in height, DBH 16 cm, trunk height to foliage 1.4 m, crown height 3.6 m, crown width 2.3 m, buttresses up to 0.5 m; foliage 2 kg mature wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical, narrow; bark black; cambium light brown; wood white; exudate white; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: kotokat Local use: young leaves cooked as greens; stems for housing and fence construction; firewood

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Record Id: 22a0cc1f-8351-4394-88ea-a6788cbf5b50

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