Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #:
YS1K0034
Occurrence ID (GUID):
c9bf3fc3-9320-4490-b0a6-45e3988b028f
Taxon:Sterculia tantrae Morat Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: Z. Ezedin (10 Jul 2021)
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Collector:
Binatang Research Center YS1K0034
Date: 2021-07-10
Verbatim Date: 09 Jun 2012
Locality:
Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan
-6.163883 146.838333
Elevation:
1723 meters
(5651ft)
Habitat:
Secondary montane rainforest
Description:
tree, to 8.4 m in height, DBH 12.2 cm, trunk height to foliage 5.4 m, crown height 3 m, crown width 3.8 m; foliage 1 kg mature wet mass; outer bark smooth, with lenticels; fissures horizontal, broad; bark brown, light brown; cambium brown, light brown, white; wood white; exudate absent, from felled plot. Local name: dot Local use: timber for house and fencing construction; firewood; leaves used as paper for cigarettes