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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS4A0238
Occurrence ID (GUID): 0d348564-3bbf-4f90-9dd7-3d9ef3a22640
Taxon: Polyscias spectabilis (Harms) Lowry & G.M.Plunkett
Family: Araliaceae
Determiner: Z. Ezedin (10 Jul 2021)
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Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS4A0238   
Date: 2021-07-10
Verbatim Date: 16 May 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 7 m in height, DBH 6.9 cm, trunk height to foliage 6 m, crown height 1 m, crown width 1.3 m; foliage 0.4 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical; bark light brown; cambium light brown; wood light brown, 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: 0d348564-3bbf-4f90-9dd7-3d9ef3a22640
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