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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP2C0470
Occurrence ID (GUID): 409ee5c7-1b6b-4ec1-bbc9-457efbc2e52f
Taxon: Microcos argentata Burret
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: G. Sosanika (12 Oct 2009)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP2C0470   
Date: 2009-10-12
Verbatim Date: 07 Jun 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 6.59 m in height, DBH 5 cm, trunk height to foliage 2.2 m, crown height 4.39 m, crown width 3.98 m; foliage 2 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, with lenticels; bark brown; cambium light brown; wood light brown; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: digil kubal Local use: timber for house construction, bark used as poison for killing fish
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Record Id: 409ee5c7-1b6b-4ec1-bbc9-457efbc2e52f
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