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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP2E0314
Occurrence ID (GUID): 2f4228cf-1616-454f-8993-8a868a17397a
Taxon: Microcos grandiflora Burret
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: G. Sosanika (12 Oct 2009)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP2E0314   
Date: 2009-10-12
Verbatim Date: 09 Sep 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 11.35 m in height, DBH 5.4 cm, trunk height to foliage 3.65 m, crown height 7.7 m, crown width 3.1 m; foliage 1.6 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough, with lenticels; fissures horizontal, broad; bark black, dark brown, brown, grey; cambium brown, light brown, red; wood brown, light brown, red, white; 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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Record Id: 2f4228cf-1616-454f-8993-8a868a17397a
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