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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS2E0998
Occurrence ID (GUID): 967ad38d-9f30-4436-9dce-5ea4b7e5223e
Taxon: Trichospermum pleiostigma (F.Muell.) Kosterm.
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (19 Sep 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS2E0998   
Date: 2007-09-19
Verbatim Date: 02 Aug 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 13.48 m in height, DBH 12.4 cm, trunk height to foliage 11.23 m, crown height 2.25 m, crown width 3.33 m; foliage 1 kg mature wet mass, 0.0851 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; bark brown, grey; cambium orange; wood orange, 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: 967ad38d-9f30-4436-9dce-5ea4b7e5223e
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