Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #:
YP2D0098
Occurrence ID (GUID):
a8161448-d2c7-4165-9e13-6c1cfe37e82d
Taxon:Sterculia tantrae Morat Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: Z. Ezedin (10 Jul 2021)
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Collector:
Binatang Research Center YP2D0098
Date: 2021-07-10
Verbatim Date: 27 Jul 2012
Locality:
Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan
-6.1642 146.840083
Elevation:
1738 meters
(5701ft)
Habitat:
Primary montane rainforest
Description:
tree, to 26.5 m in height, DBH 41 cm, trunk height to foliage 13.5 m, crown height 13 m, crown width 14 m; foliage 17 kg mature wet mass; outer bark rough, with lenticels; fissures vertical, broad; bark light brown, white, cream; cambium white, cream; wood brown, light brown, white, cream; exudate absent, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: dot Local use: timber for house and fencing construction; firewood; leaves used as paper for cigarettes