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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: NP2B0102
Occurrence ID (GUID): 5c9bc49a-35b7-4b3f-97e6-21c6f208d312
Taxon: Litsea timoriana Span.
Family: Lauraceae
Determiner: K. Molem (18 Aug 2014)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   NP2B0102   
Date: 2014-08-18
Verbatim Date: 26 Mar 2014
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang, Numba
-5.7222  145.2714
Elevation: 1200 meters (3936ft)
Habitat: Primary lower montane forest
Description: tree, to 12.23 m in height, DBH 7.7 cm, trunk height to foliage 8.6 m, crown height 3.63 m, crown width 4.53 m; foliage 1.5 kg mature wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical, narrow; bark dark brown, brown, light brown; cambium light brown, white; wood white; exudate absent; from felled plot. Local name: mondu, wega wega Local use: Timber for fence construction and for posts, frame, flooring, and walls in house construction; firewood; wood for making dundu drums
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Record Id: 5c9bc49a-35b7-4b3f-97e6-21c6f208d312
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