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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: NS1A0008
Occurrence ID (GUID): 02245f3a-826b-48d0-bcc4-6f49c0418b46
Taxon: Trichospermum pleiostigma (F.Muell.) Kosterm.
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: K. Molem (14 Feb 2014)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   NS1A0008   
Date: 2014-02-14
Verbatim Date: 08 Oct 2013
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang, Numba
-5.7222  145.2714
Elevation: 1200 meters (3936ft)
Habitat: Secondary lower montane forest
Description: tree, to 22.21 m in height, DBH 24.5 cm, trunk height to foliage 14.36 m, crown height 7.85 m, crown width 7 m; foliage 7 kg mature wet mass, 0.4726 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, with lenticels; fissures vertical, narrow; bark brown, grey; cambium brown, light brown, white, cream; wood brown, light brown, white, cream; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: wavu Local use: Bark for rope to make bilum (string bags) and tying pigs; firewood; for posts, walls, and roofing in house construction
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Record Id: 02245f3a-826b-48d0-bcc4-6f49c0418b46
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