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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WP5C1245
Occurrence ID (GUID): 50c6660a-98b2-49fa-be51-299b21660d58
Taxon: Microcos grandiflora Burret
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: G. Sosanika (12 Oct 2009)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WP5C1245   
Date: 2009-10-12
Verbatim Date: 19 May 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.2373  145.177183
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Primary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 28.4 m in height, DBH 28.5 cm, trunk height to foliage 16.2 m, crown height 12.2 m, crown width 8.65 m, buttresses up to 0.8 m; foliage 20.6 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; bark dark brown, brown, white; cambium brown, light brown; wood brown; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: ang kubal Local use: timber for house construction, used for construction of small huts, bark used as poison for killing fish
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Record Id: 50c6660a-98b2-49fa-be51-299b21660d58
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