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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP5C1099
Occurrence ID (GUID): 57c6fe8d-ebc5-4066-9962-a648c22c2e29
Taxon: Sterculia tantrae Morat
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: Z. Ezedin (10 Jul 2021)
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Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP5C1099   
Date: 2021-07-10
Verbatim Date: 18 Jun 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 13.9 m in height, DBH 8.5 cm, trunk height to foliage 8.85 m, crown height 5.05 m, crown width 3.15 m; foliage 1.4 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough, with lenticels; fissures broad; bark black, dark brown, brown, white, grey; cambium dark brown, brown, light brown, red; wood dark brown, 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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Record Id: 57c6fe8d-ebc5-4066-9962-a648c22c2e29
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