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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP2B0502
Occurrence ID (GUID): ebba4ed0-0a23-4213-bb49-ed48e6ba3ca7
Taxon: Pterocymbium beccarii K.Schum.
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: G. Sosanika (12 Oct 2009)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP2B0502   
Date: 2009-10-12
Verbatim Date: 10 Jul 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 13.61 m in height, DBH 10.7 cm, trunk height to foliage 9.49 m, crown height 4.12 m, crown width 4.57 m; foliage 1 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, rough; fissures vertical, broad, narrow; bark black, dark brown, brown, light brown, white, grey; cambium brown, light brown; wood light brown; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: yandu Local use: leaves used as poison for killing fish, fruits are edible
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