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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP3B0608
Occurrence ID (GUID): 1501e319-0992-4e96-adf5-9041c031f52f
Taxon: Microcos grandiflora Burret
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: G. Sosanika (12 Oct 2009)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP3B0608   
Date: 2009-10-12
Verbatim Date: 02 Jul 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 24.36 m in height, DBH 30.9 cm, trunk height to foliage 12.11 m, crown height 12.25 m, crown width 7.79 m, buttresses up to 0.62 m; foliage 19.5 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough, flaky, with lenticels; fissures broad; bark black, dark brown, brown, light brown, grey; cambium dark brown, brown, red; wood brown, light brown, red; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, 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: 1501e319-0992-4e96-adf5-9041c031f52f
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