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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS3E1090
Occurrence ID (GUID): 87dbd628-f9e5-44b7-a4d2-e0a61f998147
Taxon: Macaranga aleuritoides F.Muell
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Determiner: K. Molem (17 Sep 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS3E1090   
Date: 2007-09-17
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 13.18 m in height, DBH 8.7 cm, trunk height to foliage 6.73 m, crown height 6.45 m, crown width 5.77 m, stilt roots up to 0.23 m; foliage 3.6 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical, broad; bark brown, green; cambium brown; wood light brown, white; exudate red; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: kui kapangusing Local use: timber for house construction, used for construction of small huts
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Record Id: 87dbd628-f9e5-44b7-a4d2-e0a61f998147
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