Minnesota Biodiversity Atlas - Occurrence Profile

Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center (NGBRC)

Catalog Number / Barcode: WS4B0451

Occurrence ID: a5f675b3-5699-42d9-8a78-db71087aceba

Taxon: Polyscias spectabilis (Harms) Lowry & G.M.Plunkett

Family: Araliaceae

Determiner: Z. Ezedin

Date Determined: 10 Jul 2021

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Observer: Binatang Research Center

Number: WS4B0451

Date: 2021-07-10

Verbatim Date: 16 Oct 2006

Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang

Latitude/Longitude: -5.229583 145.178467

Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)

Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest

Description: tree, to 17.34 m in height, DBH 17 cm, trunk height to foliage 14.81 m, crown height 2.53 m, crown width 2.6 m; foliage 6.8 kg mature wet mass, 0.2779 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark flaky, with lenticels; fissures vertical, broad; bark brown, white; cambium brown; wood light brown, white; exudate colorless; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: mui Local use: leaves used as poison for killing fish, timber for fence construction

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