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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: NP1B0077
Occurrence ID (GUID): c9c267d3-1dba-4509-a6ac-45de5c149e52
Taxon: Medusanthera laxiflora (Miers) R.A.Howard
Family: Stemonuraceae
Determiner: K. Molem (18 Aug 2014)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   NP1B0077   
Date: 2014-08-18
Verbatim Date: 09 Apr 2014
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang, Numba
-5.7222  145.2714
Elevation: 1200 meters (3936ft)
Habitat: Primary lower montane forest
Description: tree, to 15 m in height, DBH 20.8 cm, trunk height to foliage 9.2 m, crown height 5.8 m, crown width 4.72 m; foliage 5.05 kg mature wet mass, 0.67 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical, horizontal, narrow; bark brown, light brown, red; cambium light brown, yellow; wood yellow, white; exudate absent; wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: baitum, garungo Local use: For posts in house construction; firewood; digging tool
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