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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP4C0923
Occurrence ID (GUID): edf4c11a-ecf2-4a67-af0b-1da811bf0fc1
Taxon: Cerbera floribunda K.Schum.
Family: Apocynaceae
Determiner: K. Molem (23 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP4C0923   
Date: 2007-07-23
Verbatim Date: 19 Apr 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 25.7 m in height, DBH 20.1 cm, trunk height to foliage 17.3 m, crown height 8.4 m, crown width 4.1 m; foliage 7.8 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, rough, flaky, with lenticels; fissures vertical, broad; bark black, dark brown, white, grey; cambium brown, light brown, yellow; wood black, brown, light brown, white; exudate white; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: mangaté Local use: latex applied to sores, latex used as glue, herbal medicine for scabies
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