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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP2D0379
Occurrence ID (GUID): e2a376f6-bc3f-4dd3-b3ce-e3e1fcccc409
Taxon: Gigasiphon schlechteri (Harms) de Wit
Family: Fabaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (23 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP2D0379   
Date: 2007-07-23
Verbatim Date: 21 Mar 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 26.53 m in height, DBH 28.6 cm, trunk height to foliage 10.99 m, crown height 15.54 m, crown width 16.44 m, buttresses up to 0.67 m; foliage 25.5 kg mature wet mass, 0.9792 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough, with lenticels; fissures broad; bark black, dark brown, brown, light brown, grey; cambium dark brown, brown, light brown; wood black, dark brown, brown, light brown, white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: baim Local use: timber for house construction
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