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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP4B1004
Occurrence ID (GUID): ce32f1a1-43d6-484c-b55e-521002366006
Taxon: Microcos grandiflora Burret
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: G. Sosanika (12 Oct 2009)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP4B1004   
Date: 2009-10-12
Verbatim Date: 10 Aug 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 22.92 m in height, DBH 20.9 cm, trunk height to foliage 12.15 m, crown height 10.77 m, crown width 8.05 m, buttresses up to 0.95 m; foliage 22.4 kg mature wet mass, 0.2738 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough; fissures vertical; bark dark brown, brown; cambium orange; wood brown, light brown, red; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: ang kubal Local use: timber for house construction, used for construction of small huts, bark used as poison for killing fish
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Record Id: ce32f1a1-43d6-484c-b55e-521002366006
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