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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP2D0369
Occurrence ID (GUID): afa1e25c-eb3f-4b3a-8b05-45283713fe68
Taxon: Microcos argentata Burret
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: G. Sosanika (12 Oct 2009)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP2D0369   
Date: 2009-10-12
Verbatim Date: 18 Aug 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 32.55 m in height, DBH 34.8 cm, trunk height to foliage 19 m, crown height 13.55 m, crown width 8.33 m, buttresses up to 1.85 m; foliage 21.2 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical, broad; bark dark brown, brown, white; cambium brown, orange; wood light brown, orange, white; 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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