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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS4D0868
Occurrence ID (GUID): eaace8eb-874b-4d32-9afd-a41d4580311b
Taxon: Trichospermum pleiostigma (F.Muell.) Kosterm.
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (20 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS4D0868   
Date: 2007-07-20
Verbatim Date: 08 Mar 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 18.55 m in height, DBH 16.3 cm, trunk height to foliage 14 m, crown height 4.55 m, crown width 4.25 m; foliage 6 kg mature wet mass, 0.2723 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical, broad; bark brown, light 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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