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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: NP2B0131
Occurrence ID (GUID): b4aa69c6-0ab6-493e-975d-996a2619883a
Taxon: Medusanthera laxiflora (Miers) R.A.Howard
Family: Stemonuraceae
Determiner: K. Molem (10 Sep 2014)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   NP2B0131   
Date: 2014-09-10
Verbatim Date: 29 Mar 2014
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang, Numba
-5.7222  145.2714
Elevation: 1200 meters (3936ft)
Habitat: Primary lower montane forest
Description: tree, to 8.46 m in height, DBH 6.1 cm, trunk height to foliage 3.94 m, crown height 4.52 m, crown width 2.2 m; foliage 1.05 kg mature wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical, horizontal, narrow; bark brown, light brown; cambium yellow; wood yellow, white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: baitum, garungo Local use: For posts in house construction; firewood; digging tool
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