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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS3E1026
Occurrence ID (GUID): 9b15b162-c764-4c0e-b89a-b3e71fddf4f9
Taxon: Trichospermum pleiostigma (F.Muell.) Kosterm.
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (14 Nov 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS3E1026   
Date: 2007-11-14
Verbatim Date: 10 Sep 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 21.86 m in height, DBH 18.3 cm, trunk height to foliage 14.89 m, crown height 6.97 m, crown width 4.7 m; foliage 5.6 kg mature wet mass, 0.1406 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, with lenticels; fissures vertical; bark 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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Record Id: 9b15b162-c764-4c0e-b89a-b3e71fddf4f9
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