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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP5C1146
Occurrence ID (GUID): fcfdef5a-5f0f-4703-8802-f5f8a76f4785
Taxon: Dracaena angustifolia Roxb.
Family: Asparagaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (14 Jan 2008)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP5C1146   
Date: 2008-01-14
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: shrub, to 6.82 m in height, DBH 6.5 cm, trunk height to foliage 1.24 m, crown height 5.58 m, crown width 3.06 m, buttresses up to 0.37 m; foliage 4 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, rough; fissures vertical, horizontal, broad; bark black, light brown, grey; cambium brown, light brown, green; wood light brown, white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: tigi Local use: used to cure scabies
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