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Taxon: Trichospermum pleiostigma (F.Muell.) Kosterm.
Family: Malvaceae

Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS1E0975   

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 14.2 m in height, DBH 19.3 cm, trunk height to foliage 8.7 m, crown height 5.5 m, crown width 3.8 m; foliage 11.2 kg mature wet mass, 0.4658 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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Record Id: 6d08e588-4915-463d-b5a0-06bcc8e081bc

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