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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS4A0267
Occurrence ID (GUID): 5548f265-090a-4cad-999f-20994b1f3263
Taxon: Trichospermum pleiostigma (F.Muell.) Kosterm.
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: K. Molem (20 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS4A0267   
Date: 2007-07-20
Verbatim Date: 18 May 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 17.2 m in height, DBH 11.7 cm, trunk height to foliage 11.7 m, crown height 5.5 m, crown width 3.5 m; foliage 1.7 kg mature wet mass, 0 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; bark brown, white; 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: 5548f265-090a-4cad-999f-20994b1f3263
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