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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS4D0869
Occurrence ID (GUID): bd7288bc-a980-435b-8751-cf972c4632c8
Taxon: Leucosyke australis Unruh
Family: Urticaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (20 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS4D0869   
Date: 2007-07-20
Verbatim Date: 03 Mar 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 7.6 m in height, DBH 6.3 cm, trunk height to foliage 1.9 m, crown height 5.7 m, crown width 6.7 m; foliage 5 kg mature wet mass, 0.0613 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; bark brown, white, green; cambium brown; wood light brown, white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: sikiang irikal Local use: leaves are used as steel wool, used for brushing teeth
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