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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: NP1B0066
Occurrence ID (GUID): a1ea44c2-edc9-478d-adae-26886e2b0d3b
Taxon: Syzygium acuminatissimum (Blume) DC.
Family: Myrtaceae
Determiner: K. Molem (10 Sep 2014)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   NP1B0066   
Date: 2014-09-10
Verbatim Date: 09 Apr 2014
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang, Numba
-5.7222  145.2714
Elevation: 1200 meters (3936ft)
Habitat: Primary lower montane forest
Description: tree, to 20.8 m in height, DBH 21.9 cm, trunk height to foliage 11.7 m, crown height 9.1 m, crown width 7 m, stilt roots up to 50 m; foliage 17 kg mature wet mass; outer bark flaky, with lenticels; fissures vertical, horizontal, narrow; bark brown, light brown; cambium brown; wood black, dark brown, brown, light brown, white; exudate absent; wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: dako, yapoi, yazi Local use: Timber for fence construction and for posts and frame in house construction; firewood; sticks to support sugar cane and yams; fruits for stones to hunt birds
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