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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS2A0086
Occurrence ID (GUID): 2db6d035-8aec-495d-9170-9afb077d6661
Taxon: Trichospermum pleiostigma (F.Muell.) Kosterm.
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (21 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS2A0086   
Date: 2007-07-21
Verbatim Date: 23 Mar 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 16.9 m in height, DBH 13 cm, trunk height to foliage 12.9 m, crown height 4 m, crown width 3.2 m; foliage 2.8 kg mature wet mass, 0.3232 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough, with lenticels; bark brown, light brown; cambium brown, orange; wood brown, light brown, white; 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: 2db6d035-8aec-495d-9170-9afb077d6661
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