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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP1D0181
Occurrence ID (GUID): b8873c7d-3f78-4bef-8d46-cd009d45aa71
Taxon: Microcos argentata Burret
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: G. Sosanika (12 Oct 2009)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP1D0181   
Date: 2009-10-12
Verbatim Date: 12 Jul 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 33.38 m in height, DBH 40.9 cm, trunk height to foliage 20.63 m, crown height 12.75 m, crown width 7.33 m; foliage 29.6 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough, with lenticels; fissures horizontal, broad; bark black, dark brown, brown, light brown; cambium dark brown, brown; wood dark brown, brown, light brown, pink; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: digil kubal Local use: timber for house construction, bark used as poison for killing fish
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