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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP4B0950
Occurrence ID (GUID): afe65204-82ae-44fd-9eeb-da38ac79babb
Taxon: Mallotus peltatus Müll.Arg.
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (13 Nov 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP4B0950   
Date: 2007-11-13
Verbatim Date: 09 Aug 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 7.73 m in height, DBH 5 cm, trunk height to foliage 2.13 m, crown height 5.6 m, crown width 3.2 m; foliage 1 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; fissures horizontal, narrow; bark brown, grey; cambium red; wood orange; 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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