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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP2E0285
Occurrence ID (GUID): 2d8d967e-0ea3-4179-8776-462df824815f
Taxon: Merrilliodendron megacarpum (Hemsl.) Sleumer
Family: Icacinaceae
Determiner: D. Damas (22 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP2E0285   
Date: 2007-07-22
Verbatim Date: 06 Sep 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 8.05 m in height, DBH 6.5 cm, trunk height to foliage 4.8 m, crown height 3.25 m, crown width 3.1 m; foliage 1.2 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; fissures horizontal, broad; bark grey, green; cambium dark brown, brown, light brown; wood brown, light brown, orange; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: kingu Local use: used for building houses
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