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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS5D0803
Occurrence ID (GUID): 1e85ec21-3a53-4175-92e3-039de9453a87
Taxon: Trichospermum pleiostigma (F.Muell.) Kosterm.
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: K. Damas (20 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS5D0803   
Date: 2007-07-20
Verbatim Date: 23 Feb 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 21.94 m in height, DBH 16.2 cm, trunk height to foliage 16.54 m, crown height 5.4 m, crown width 5.1 m, buttresses up to 0.23 m; foliage 6 kg mature wet mass, 0.3712 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough, with lenticels; fissures vertical, broad, narrow; bark brown, white; cambium brown, light 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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