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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP2A0443
Occurrence ID (GUID): 6d8c3133-9752-497f-b310-4ac362a683ed
Taxon: Microcos grandiflora Burret
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: G. Sosanika (12 Oct 2009)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP2A0443   
Date: 2009-10-12
Verbatim Date: 03 Apr 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 10.35 m in height, DBH 8.5 cm, trunk height to foliage 4.3 m, crown height 6.05 m, crown width 3.05 m, buttresses up to 0.2 m; foliage 6.2 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth; fissures horizontal, broad; bark dark brown, brown, white; cambium brown, light brown; wood brown, light brown, white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: ang kubal Local use: timber for house construction, used for construction of small huts, bark used as poison for killing fish
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Record Id: 6d8c3133-9752-497f-b310-4ac362a683ed
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