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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: NP4B0239
Occurrence ID (GUID): 05a073df-dfd9-4745-aab3-1a28923632be
Taxon: Cynometra schefferi (K.Schum.) Rados.
Family: Fabaceae
Determiner: Z. Ezedin (10 Jul 2021)
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Collector: Binatang Research Center   NP4B0239   
Date: 2021-07-10
Verbatim Date: 16 May 2014
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang, Numba
-5.7222  145.2714
Elevation: 1200 meters (3936ft)
Habitat: Primary lower montane forest
Description: tree, to 14.03 m in height, DBH 9.7 cm, trunk height to foliage 6.13 m, crown height 7.9 m, crown width 4.5 m; foliage 8 kg mature wet mass; outer bark smooth, with lenticels; bark dark brown, brown, light brown; cambium brown, light brown; wood light brown; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, 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: 05a073df-dfd9-4745-aab3-1a28923632be
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