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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP4B0856
Occurrence ID (GUID): e4792b0c-ffe2-4378-8884-1685674bd9d9
Taxon: Litsea timoriana Span.
Family: Lauraceae
Determiner: K. Damas (22 Sep 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP4B0856   
Date: 2007-09-22
Verbatim Date: 15 Aug 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 12.88 m in height, DBH 7.7 cm, trunk height to foliage 7.88 m, crown height 5 m, crown width 3.56 m; foliage 1.8 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; bark brown, grey; cambium red; wood 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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