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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS2C0629
Occurrence ID (GUID): f819607e-6215-4220-90c5-390fa039f797
Taxon: Macaranga aleuritoides F.Muell
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Determiner: K. Fazang (20 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS2C0629   
Date: 2007-07-20
Verbatim Date: 29 Jan 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 15.61 m in height, DBH 18.2 cm, trunk height to foliage 6.95 m, crown height 8.66 m, crown width 10.05 m; foliage 60 kg mature wet mass, 0.6637 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, rough; fissures vertical, horizontal, broad, narrow; bark black, dark brown, brown, white, grey, green; cambium dark brown, green; wood brown, light brown, white; exudate red; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: kui kapangusing Local use: timber for house construction, used for construction of small huts
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Record Id: f819607e-6215-4220-90c5-390fa039f797
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