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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS5B0398
Occurrence ID (GUID): b1f6e63a-775b-4014-8427-09924024e31d
Taxon: Trichospermum pleiostigma (F.Muell.) Kosterm.
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: K. Molem (20 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS5B0398   
Date: 2007-07-20
Verbatim Date: 09 Nov 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 20.7 m in height, DBH 26.4 cm, trunk height to foliage 15.55 m, crown height 5.15 m, crown width 6.4 m; foliage 16.6 kg mature wet mass, 1006.9 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical, broad; 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: b1f6e63a-775b-4014-8427-09924024e31d
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