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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS3D0902
Occurrence ID (GUID): 0053495d-bcdf-41e1-87d3-3bdf202a4d29
Taxon: Leucosyke australis Unruh
Family: Urticaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (21 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS3D0902   
Date: 2007-07-21
Verbatim Date: 24 May 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 6.28 m in height, DBH 9 cm, trunk height to foliage 0.98 m, crown height 5.3 m, crown width 4.15 m; foliage 4 kg mature wet mass, 0.1159 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical; bark dark brown, white, green; cambium brown; wood brown; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: sikiang irikal Local use: leaves are used as steel wool, used for brushing teeth
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Record Id: 0053495d-bcdf-41e1-87d3-3bdf202a4d29
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