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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: YP3B0128
Occurrence ID (GUID): 70cc1177-9dfc-4977-885c-92ccb2571da7
Taxon: Turpinia pentandra (Schltr.) B.L.Linden
Family: Staphyleaceae
Determiner: K. Molem (29 Jan 2014)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   YP3B0128   
Date: 2014-01-29
Verbatim Date: 08 Oct 2012
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan
-6.1637  146.842017
Elevation: 1749 meters (5737ft)
Habitat: Primary montane rainforest
Description: small tree, to 6.56 m in height, DBH 5.5 cm, trunk height to foliage 2.16 m, crown height 4.4 m, crown width 3.2 m; foliage 3 kg mature wet mass, 0.0365 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark flaky; fissures vertical, narrow; bark light brown; cambium green; wood 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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Record Id: 70cc1177-9dfc-4977-885c-92ccb2571da7
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