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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS3E1064
Occurrence ID (GUID): d9cdc26e-5b20-4de7-9e42-beff245b195f
Taxon: Trichospermum pleiostigma (F.Muell.) Kosterm.
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (16 Jan 2008)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS3E1064   
Date: 2008-01-16
Verbatim Date: 12 Sep 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 20 m in height, DBH 16.5 cm, trunk height to foliage 13.01 m, crown height 6.99 m, crown width 7.18 m; foliage 5.8 kg mature wet mass, 0.5519 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical; bark brown, light brown; cambium brown; wood 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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