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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP4D0899
Occurrence ID (GUID): df57677f-0a30-4c79-9f46-6c48fdb671f6
Taxon: Microcos argentata Burret
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (12 Jan 2008)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP4D0899   
Date: 2008-01-12
Verbatim Date: 26 Mar 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 15.75 m in height, DBH 13.8 cm, trunk height to foliage 5.61 m, crown height 10.14 m, crown width 5.33 m, buttresses up to 0.37 m; foliage 7 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough; fissures broad; bark black, dark brown, brown; cambium dark brown, brown, red; wood dark brown, 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: df57677f-0a30-4c79-9f46-6c48fdb671f6
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