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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: WS5D0836
Occurrence ID (GUID): 64a299bf-166b-463c-9867-f2d3ca6cbb22
Taxon: Trichospermum pleiostigma (F.Muell.) Kosterm.
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: K. Molem (20 Jul 2007)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   WS5D0836   
Date: 2007-07-20
Verbatim Date: 12 Mar 2007
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Wanang
-5.229583  145.178467
Elevation: 115 meters (377ft)
Habitat: Secondary lowland rainforest
Description: tree, to 12.66 m in height, DBH 7.6 cm, trunk height to foliage 10.67 m, crown height 1.99 m, crown width 2.76 m; foliage 1 kg mature wet mass, 0.0566 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures broad; bark brown, light 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: 64a299bf-166b-463c-9867-f2d3ca6cbb22
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