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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS3E1048
Occurrence ID (GUID): 8bacc52c-1a3f-47a6-8518-83439c1b8943
Taxon: Trichospermum pleiostigma (F.Muell.) Kosterm.
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (16 Jan 2008)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS3E1048   
Date: 2008-01-16
Verbatim Date: 07 Sep 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 18.96 m in height, DBH 21.6 cm, trunk height to foliage 8.54 m, crown height 10.42 m, crown width 9.39 m; foliage 8.2 kg mature wet mass, 0.0945 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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Record Id: 8bacc52c-1a3f-47a6-8518-83439c1b8943
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