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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP5A1000
Occurrence ID (GUID): e7691a99-d105-4d00-9c31-e3c385e76c43
Taxon: Sterculia tantrae Morat
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: Z. Ezedin (10 Jul 2021)
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Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP5A1000   
Date: 2021-07-10
Verbatim Date: 28 Sep 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 12.58 m in height, DBH 7.5 cm, trunk height to foliage 6.86 m, crown height 5.72 m, crown width 2.22 m; foliage 0.333 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, with lenticels; fissures horizontal, broad; bark brown, light brown, white, green; cambium dark brown, brown, light brown; wood brown, light brown, white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: umé Local use: nuts are gathered for food
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