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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP4C0874
Occurrence ID (GUID): d40ea970-4058-464a-a013-cacce18c6ff3
Taxon: Ternstroemia cherryi (F.M.Bailey) Merr. ex J.F.Bailey
Family: Pentaphylacaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (23 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP4C0874   
Date: 2007-07-23
Verbatim Date: 09 Apr 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 20.3 m in height, DBH 20.9 cm, trunk height to foliage 5.26 m, crown height 15.04 m, crown width 7.35 m, buttresses up to 0.48 m; foliage 34 kg mature wet mass, 9 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough, with lenticels; fissures vertical, horizontal, broad, narrow; bark black, dark brown, brown, light brown, grey; cambium dark brown, brown, light brown; wood black, dark brown, brown, light brown, white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: dumu Local use: bark used used as poison for killing fish
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