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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: YP1B0049
Occurrence ID (GUID): b0e5c78b-04a7-4dac-87e8-744fbd549dd2
Taxon: Turpinia pentandra (Schltr.) B.L.Linden
Family: Staphyleaceae
Determiner: H. Nowatuo (08 Jan 2013)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   YP1B0049   
Date: 2013-01-08
Verbatim Date: 28 May 2012
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan
-6.1637  146.842017
Elevation: 1749 meters (5737ft)
Habitat: Primary montane rainforest
Description: small tree, to 8.2 m in height, DBH 5.5 cm, trunk height to foliage 2.2 m, crown height 6 m, crown width 3 m; foliage 2 kg mature wet mass, 0.161 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth; fissures vertical, narrow; bark brown, light brown; cambium light brown, white; wood light brown, white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: jovi jovi Local use: timber for house construction, fence posts and firewood; fish poison
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