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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP1A0018
Occurrence ID (GUID): 06c739fb-8f22-43e4-93d6-a4c2e363747a
Taxon: Litsea timoriana Span.
Family: Lauraceae
Determiner: D. Damas (22 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP1A0018   
Date: 2007-07-22
Verbatim Date: 10 Mar 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 12.7 m in height, DBH 7.8 cm, trunk height to foliage 8.4 m, crown height 4.3 m, crown width 4.1 m; foliage 3.6 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth; bark dark brown; cambium dark brown, light brown; wood yellow; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: malang malang Local use: used for fencing, young leaves are chewed with betel nuts, timber for house construction, used for constructing small huts, used for firewood
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Record Id: 06c739fb-8f22-43e4-93d6-a4c2e363747a
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