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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP2D1300
Occurrence ID (GUID): e49a1613-912a-4fba-a1a8-da6d7177ad41
Taxon: Microcos grandiflora Burret
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: G. Sosanika (12 Oct 2009)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP2D1300   
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 15.6 m in height, DBH 10.5 cm, trunk height to foliage 9.75 m, crown height 5.85 m, crown width 4.47 m; foliage 2.8 kg mature wet mass, 0.1733 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical; bark brown; cambium dark brown, brown, orange, green; wood brown; 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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