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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS5B0384
Occurrence ID (GUID): 85b3c3c0-e7bc-430f-a5e9-378dfe1fa835
Taxon: Macaranga tanarius (L.) Muell.Arg.
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (21 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS5B0384   
Date: 2007-07-21
Verbatim Date: 04 Nov 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 15.5 m in height, DBH 17 cm, trunk height to foliage 5.4 m, crown height 10.1 m, crown width 5.95 m, buttresses up to 0.35 m; foliage 15.8 kg mature wet mass, 0.6263 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical, broad; bark brown, white, green; cambium brown; wood light brown, white; exudate cream, red; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: kui iburra Local use: timber for house construction
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Record Id: 85b3c3c0-e7bc-430f-a5e9-378dfe1fa835
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