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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS2C0640
Occurrence ID (GUID): 9c98a6da-10b9-4491-9efa-eab58d98055f
Taxon: Trichospermum pleiostigma (F.Muell.) Kosterm.
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (20 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS2C0640   
Date: 2007-07-20
Verbatim Date: 26 Jan 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 7.75 m in height, DBH 6.8 cm, trunk height to foliage 1.2 m, crown height 6.55 m, crown width 2.7 m; foliage 1 kg mature wet mass, 0.1245 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, with lenticels; fissures horizontal, broad; bark black, dark brown, white, grey, green; cambium dark brown, brown; wood light brown, 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: 9c98a6da-10b9-4491-9efa-eab58d98055f
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