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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS5C0730
Occurrence ID (GUID): 0aaf68c1-c996-4e47-aaf0-b6eb1f934d7e
Taxon: Trichospermum pleiostigma (F.Muell.) Kosterm.
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: K. Molem (20 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS5C0730   
Date: 2007-07-20
Verbatim Date: 21 Nov 2006
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 16.19 m in height, DBH 12 cm, trunk height to foliage 12.85 m, crown height 3.34 m, crown width 4.19 m; foliage 2.4 kg mature wet mass, 0.1915 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures broad; bark brown, light brown, white; cambium brown; wood 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: 0aaf68c1-c996-4e47-aaf0-b6eb1f934d7e
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