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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP1B0090
Occurrence ID (GUID): e760eb80-208f-4fdc-9db1-2cb9340b6e6b
Taxon: Ternstroemia cherryi (F.M.Bailey) Merr. ex J.F.Bailey
Family: Pentaphylacaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (21 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP1B0090   
Date: 2007-07-21
Verbatim Date: 18 Mar 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 3.9 m in height, DBH 6.1 cm, trunk height to foliage 1.5 m, crown height 2.4 m, crown width 1.4 m; foliage 0.6 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, with lenticels; fissures vertical; bark brown, light brown; cambium brown, light brown; wood brown, light brown; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: dumu Local use: bark used used as poison for killing fish
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