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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: NP3B0236
Occurrence ID (GUID): 5043fed0-98c0-4202-841f-12e29ebce260
Taxon: Medusanthera laxiflora (Miers) R.A.Howard
Family: Stemonuraceae
Determiner: K. Molem (19 Jun 2014)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   NP3B0236   
Date: 2014-06-19
Verbatim Date: 23 Apr 2014
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang, Numba
-5.7222  145.2714
Elevation: 1200 meters (3936ft)
Habitat: Primary lower montane forest
Description: tree, to 6.05 m in height, DBH 6.2 cm, trunk height to foliage 3.45 m, crown height 2.6 m, crown width 3.5 m; foliage 0.1259 kg mature wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical, narrow; bark brown, light brown, white; cambium light brown, 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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Record Id: 5043fed0-98c0-4202-841f-12e29ebce260
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