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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS2E0994
Occurrence ID (GUID): 3a90172c-b72f-4313-9aae-25eb02c54d6b
Taxon: Polyscias spectabilis (Harms) Lowry & G.M.Plunkett
Family: Araliaceae
Determiner: Z. Ezedin (10 Jul 2021)
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Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS2E0994   
Date: 2021-07-10
Verbatim Date: 31 Jul 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 6.9 m in height, DBH 6.7 cm, trunk height to foliage 4.55 m, crown height 2.35 m, crown width 3.05 m; foliage 1 kg mature wet mass, 0.1042 kg juvenile wet mass; fissures vertical, narrow; bark brown, grey; cambium light brown; wood white; exudate colorless; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: mui Local use: leaves used as poison for killing fish, timber for fence construction
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Record Id: 3a90172c-b72f-4313-9aae-25eb02c54d6b
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