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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP3C0661
Occurrence ID (GUID): 7d20a400-2eba-4d28-9048-56a7e40ce969
Taxon: Litsea timoriana Span.
Family: Lauraceae
Determiner: K. Damas (23 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP3C0661   
Date: 2007-07-23
Verbatim Date: 03 Apr 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 6.31 m in height, DBH 7.6 cm, trunk height to foliage 2.18 m, crown height 4.13 m, crown width 3.38 m; foliage 1.5 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, rough, with lenticels; fissures broad; bark black, dark brown, white, grey; cambium dark brown, brown, light brown; wood black, dark brown, brown, light brown, yellow; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: malang malang Local use: used for fencing, young leaves are chewed with betel nuts, timber for house construction, used for constructing small huts, used for firewood
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Record Id: 7d20a400-2eba-4d28-9048-56a7e40ce969
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