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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP4A0962
Occurrence ID (GUID): 1a4c53b3-74f4-4fb0-beab-8130f716e475
Taxon: Mallotus peltatus Müll.Arg.
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (13 Nov 2006)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP4A0962   
Date: 2006-11-13
Verbatim Date: 21 Aug 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 6.78 m in height, DBH 5.3 cm, trunk height to foliage 3.33 m, crown height 3.45 m, crown width 3.76 m; foliage 1 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough, flaky; fissures vertical, narrow; bark cream, grey; cambium light brown; wood light brown; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: siau siau Local use: timber for house construction, used for construction of small huts, used for firewood
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