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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP5B1116
Occurrence ID (GUID): 49c956c8-a922-4457-a809-54ef3f504cc0
Taxon: Mallotus peltatus Müll.Arg.
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (14 Nov 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP5B1116   
Date: 2007-11-14
Verbatim Date: 06 Oct 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 6.72 m in height, DBH 6.3 cm, trunk height to foliage 1.44 m, crown height 5.28 m, crown width 4 m; foliage 0.8 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, rough; fissures vertical, narrow; bark light brown, white, green; cambium brown, light brown, red, grey; wood brown, light brown, white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: siau siau Local use: timber for house construction, used for construction of small huts, used for firewood
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