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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP3C0625
Occurrence ID (GUID): 262bc218-8c00-4617-b1e5-84812291583c
Taxon: Microcos grandiflora Burret
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: G. Sosanika (12 Oct 2009)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP3C0625   
Date: 2009-10-12
Verbatim Date: 16 Apr 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 26.15 m in height, DBH 30 cm, trunk height to foliage 10.1 m, crown height 16.05 m, crown width 10.9 m, buttresses up to 1 m; foliage 23.2 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough, with lenticels; fissures broad; bark black, dark brown, brown, white, grey; cambium dark brown, brown; wood black, dark brown, brown, light brown; 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: 262bc218-8c00-4617-b1e5-84812291583c
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