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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS1E0966
Occurrence ID (GUID): dbf55750-9dfe-4e13-8852-6347b9538a1f
Taxon: Trichospermum pleiostigma (F.Muell.) Kosterm.
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (22 Nov 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS1E0966   
Date: 2007-11-22
Verbatim Date: 26 Jul 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 11.23 m in height, DBH 8.5 cm, trunk height to foliage 9.18 m, crown height 2.05 m, crown width 3.86 m; foliage 1.2 kg mature wet mass, 0.1673 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; bark brown, grey; cambium red; wood white, grey; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: tikul Local use: timber for house construction, used for construction of canoes, cambium used for tying roof of houses
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