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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #:
WS4B0451
Occurrence ID (GUID):
a5f675b3-5699-42d9-8a78-db71087aceba
Taxon:
Polyscias spectabilis (Harms) Lowry & G.M.Plunkett
Family: Araliaceae
Family: Araliaceae
Determiner: Z. Ezedin (10 Jul 2021)
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Collector:
Binatang Research Center WS4B0451
Date: 2021-07-10
Verbatim Date: 16 Oct 2006
Locality:
Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583 145.178467
Elevation:
115 meters
(377ft)
Habitat:
Secondary lowland rainforest
Description:
tree, to 17.34 m in height, DBH 17 cm, trunk height to foliage 14.81 m, crown height 2.53 m, crown width 2.6 m; foliage 6.8 kg mature wet mass, 0.2779 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark flaky, with lenticels; fissures vertical, broad; bark brown, white; cambium brown; wood light brown, white; exudate colorless; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: mui Local use: leaves used as poison for killing fish, timber for fence construction
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Record Id: a5f675b3-5699-42d9-8a78-db71087aceba
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