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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP4E0845
Occurrence ID (GUID): f3ecaf65-6b0e-4b5c-9c58-b2b5c7a630f0
Taxon: Cerbera floribunda K.Schum.
Family: Apocynaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (22 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP4E0845   
Date: 2007-07-22
Verbatim Date: 01 Nov 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 19.85 m in height, DBH 16 cm, trunk height to foliage 13.05 m, crown height 6.8 m, crown width 2.7 m; foliage 5.6 kg mature wet mass, 0.4029 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark flaky, with lenticels; fissures vertical; bark brown, light brown; cambium light brown; wood light brown, white; exudate white; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: mangaté Local use: latex applied to sores, latex used as glue, herbal medicine for scabies
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