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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: NS1A0021
Occurrence ID (GUID): 18385c82-848b-494c-911f-63f06f6f1454
Taxon: Trichospermum pleiostigma (F.Muell.) Kosterm.
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: K. Molem (05 Feb 2014)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   NS1A0021   
Date: 2014-02-05
Verbatim Date: 09 Oct 2013
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang, Numba
-5.7222  145.2714
Elevation: 1200 meters (3936ft)
Habitat: Secondary lower montane forest
Description: tree, to 20.29 m in height, DBH 19.2 cm, trunk height to foliage 17 m, crown height 3.29 m, crown width 4.14 m; foliage 7.5 kg mature wet mass, 0.3029 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough, with lenticels; fissures vertical, narrow; bark brown, white, grey; cambium brown, light brown, white, cream; wood brown, light brown, white, cream; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, 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: 18385c82-848b-494c-911f-63f06f6f1454
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