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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP5B1118
Occurrence ID (GUID): 9f8d464c-ff78-4103-8039-966b4967a59d
Taxon: Alstonia scholaris (L.) R.Br.
Family: Apocynaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (14 Nov 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP5B1118   
Date: 2007-11-14
Verbatim Date: 11 Oct 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 30.12 m in height, DBH 30.2 cm, trunk height to foliage 19.63 m, crown height 10.49 m, crown width 7.22 m, buttresses up to 0.8 m; foliage 12.4 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, rough, with lenticels; fissures vertical, horizontal, narrow; bark brown, light brown, yellow, white, green; cambium brown, light brown, yellow; wood black, dark brown, brown, light brown; exudate white; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: bugul Local use: for table construction, medicinal use, latex applied to cuts, timber for house construction, timber for canoe construction
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Record Id: 9f8d464c-ff78-4103-8039-966b4967a59d
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