Locality:
Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan
-6.162617 146.841967
Elevation:
1777 meters
(5829ft)
Habitat:
Primary montane rainforest
Description:
tree, to 28.95 m in height, DBH 25.4 cm, trunk height to foliage 20.4 m, crown height 8.55 m, crown width 4.8 m, buttresses up to 1.4 m; foliage 9 kg mature wet mass, 0.364 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough, with lenticels; fissures vertical, narrow; bark dark brown, brown, light brown, green; cambium light brown; wood dark brown, brown, light brown, grey; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: siviri Local use: timber for house and fencing construction; bark used to prepare a treatment for sores