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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP5B1094
Occurrence ID (GUID): 19cae898-56fe-4146-b6a6-d10784bbf60d
Taxon: Mallotus peltatus Müll.Arg.
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Determiner: Z. Ezedin (10 Jul 2021)
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Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP5B1094   
Date: 2021-07-10
Verbatim Date: 08 Oct 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 12.21 m in height, DBH 7.5 cm, trunk height to foliage 6.99 m, crown height 5.22 m, crown width 4.11 m, stilt roots up to 0.44 m; foliage 4 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough; fissures vertical, horizontal, narrow; bark light brown, white, grey, green; cambium brown, red, grey; wood light brown, red, white, grey; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: kui unge duag Local use: timber for house construction, used for building small huts
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Record Id: 19cae898-56fe-4146-b6a6-d10784bbf60d
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