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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS5E1203
Occurrence ID (GUID): e01b58bf-4e93-4fe0-90c6-7a70d76ab090
Taxon: Melanolepis multiglandulosa Rchb. & Zoll.
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Determiner: K. Molem (17 Jan 2008)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS5E1203   
Date: 2008-01-17
Verbatim Date: 25 Oct 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 18.04 m in height, DBH 17.6 cm, trunk height to foliage 4.64 m, crown height 13.4 m, crown width 6.65 m; foliage 9 kg mature wet mass, 0.3739 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical; bark brown, light brown, yellow; cambium brown; wood light brown, yellow, white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: guakul Local use: used to treat snake bites
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