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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: NP1B0032
Occurrence ID (GUID): 99893fdc-7ade-4652-9cd6-3abfad012e6f
Taxon: Chionanthus riparius (Lingelsh.) Kiew
Family: Oleaceae
Determiner: K. Molem (13 May 2014)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   NP1B0032   
Date: 2014-05-13
Verbatim Date: 18 Mar 2014
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang, Numba
-5.7222  145.2714
Elevation: 1200 meters (3936ft)
Habitat: Primary lower montane forest
Description: tree, to 10 m in height, DBH 5.4 cm, trunk height to foliage 5.6 m, crown height 4.4 m, crown width 3.25 m; foliage 1.5 kg mature wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures horizontal, narrow; bark white, grey; cambium light brown; wood light brown, white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: yazi, norongu, bomai Local use: Timber for fence construction and for posts and frame in house construction; firewood
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