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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP1D0148
Occurrence ID (GUID): 3131506a-8c7e-408a-8f65-f449f872aaea
Taxon: Embelia cotinoides (S.Moore) Merr.
Family: Primulaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (22 Nov 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP1D0148   
Date: 2007-11-22
Verbatim Date: 10 Jul 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: climber, to 32.3 m in height, DBH 8.1 cm, trunk height to foliage 26.5 m, crown height 5.8 m, crown width 6.1 m; foliage 1.8 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough; fissures vertical, horizontal, narrow; bark dark brown, brown; cambium dark brown, red; wood dark brown, brown, red, grey; exudate red; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: umbangaul simi Local use: latex applied to sores, used as medicine
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