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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: YP2D0118
Occurrence ID (GUID): c8103eaf-eee9-4b77-826c-f73c214344c9
Taxon: Steganthera royenii Philipson
Family: Monimiaceae
Determiner: J. Valeba (17 Apr 2013)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   YP2D0118   
Date: 2013-04-17
Verbatim Date: 31 Jul 2012
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan
-6.1642  146.840083
Elevation: 1738 meters (5701ft)
Habitat: Primary montane rainforest
Description: tree, to 22.2 m in height, DBH 26 cm, trunk height to foliage 5.8 m, crown height 16.4 m, crown width 7.9 m; foliage 16 kg mature wet mass, 0.339 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough, with lenticels; fissures vertical, narrow; bark light brown, orange, white; cambium white, cream; wood light brown, white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: tongo Local use: timber for house and fencing construction; firewood; leaves used as cigarette paper
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