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Taxon: Dysoxylum parasiticum (Osbeck) Kosterm.
Family: Meliaceae

Collector: Binatang Research Center   YP1B0018   

Date: 2012-06-05

Verbatim Date: 05 Jun 2012

Locality: Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan

-6.1637  146.842017

Elevation: 1749 meters (5737ft)

Habitat: Primary montane rainforest

Description: tree, to 13.2 m in height, DBH 28.3 cm, trunk height to foliage 9 m, crown height 4.2 m, crown width 11 m, buttresses up to 0.96 m; foliage 66 kg mature wet mass; outer bark rough, with lenticels; bark brown, light brown, grey; cambium light brown, yellow, white; wood brown, red, pink; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: daemep Local use: timber for house construction; juice is swallowed to remedy stomach infection

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Record Id: bb6fd371-8dc8-4b4e-a05e-3ec473c8a258

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