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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP3D0704
Occurrence ID (GUID): e3e34f73-2a90-40bb-b4e6-9ade96652d9f
Taxon: Cerbera floribunda K.Schum.
Family: Apocynaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (21 Nov 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP3D0704   
Date: 2007-11-21
Verbatim Date: 15 Feb 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 30.35 m in height, DBH 28.7 cm, trunk height to foliage 19.15 m, crown height 11.2 m, crown width 6 m; foliage 21.5 kg mature wet mass, 0.1423 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough; fissures horizontal, broad, narrow; bark black, dark brown, brown, white, green; cambium light brown, white; wood light brown, white; exudate white; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: mangaté Local use: latex applied to sores, latex used as glue, herbal medicine for scabies
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