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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP3E0746
Occurrence ID (GUID): 48cfb749-5be6-47c6-8ad5-dec58a7016e5
Taxon: Litsea timoriana Span.
Family: Lauraceae
Determiner: K. Damas (21 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP3E0746   
Date: 2007-07-21
Verbatim Date: 23 Sep 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 16.55 m in height, DBH 11.9 cm, trunk height to foliage 6.8 m, crown height 9.75 m, crown width 3.95 m; foliage 4.2 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, with lenticels; fissures vertical, narrow; bark dark brown, brown, white, grey, green; cambium light brown, yellow; wood light brown, yellow; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, 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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