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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP4C0928
Occurrence ID (GUID): 777932f1-b37a-4282-8bcf-b903ee0a9d51
Taxon: Ternstroemia cherryi (F.M.Bailey) Merr. ex J.F.Bailey
Family: Pentaphylacaceae
Determiner: K. Molem (23 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP4C0928   
Date: 2007-07-23
Verbatim Date: 11 Apr 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 10.22 m in height, DBH 7.3 cm, trunk height to foliage 4.1 m, crown height 6.12 m, crown width 4.29 m; foliage 4.2 kg mature wet mass, 1 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, rough, with lenticels; fissures broad; bark black, dark brown, brown; cambium dark brown, brown, light brown, red; wood dark brown, brown, light brown; 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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Record Id: 777932f1-b37a-4282-8bcf-b903ee0a9d51
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