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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: NP2B0115
Occurrence ID (GUID): 655e9f7e-6087-425e-9121-2eda5d1d6a8d
Taxon: Cynometra schefferi (K.Schum.) Rados.
Family: Fabaceae
Determiner: Z. Ezedin (10 Jul 2021)
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Collector: Binatang Research Center   NP2B0115   
Date: 2021-07-10
Verbatim Date: 04 Apr 2014
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang, Numba
-5.7222  145.2714
Elevation: 1200 meters (3936ft)
Habitat: Primary lower montane forest
Description: tree, to 17.4 m in height, DBH 21.3 cm, trunk height to foliage 5.4 m, crown height 12 m, crown width 7.84 m; foliage 37.5 kg mature wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical, narrow; bark dark brown, brown, light brown; cambium brown, light brown; wood black, brown, light brown, white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: poparu, lugum kagayajo Local use: Timber for fence construction, for posts and frame in house construction, and for making traps for pigs, cassowaries, and birds; young pink leaves for fishing bait
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Record Id: 655e9f7e-6087-425e-9121-2eda5d1d6a8d
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