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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP4A0991
Occurrence ID (GUID): 47f791de-6c2b-499e-a5af-7247f6e8e1d0
Taxon: Microcos grandiflora Burret
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: G. Sosanika (12 Oct 2009)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP4A0991   
Date: 2009-10-12
Verbatim Date: 22 Aug 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 12.99 m in height, DBH 7.3 cm, trunk height to foliage 7.64 m, crown height 5.35 m, crown width 4.15 m; foliage 2 kg mature wet mass, 0.3032 kg juvenile wet mass; fissures horizontal, narrow; bark brown, green; cambium red; wood 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: 47f791de-6c2b-499e-a5af-7247f6e8e1d0
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