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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: YP4B0250
Occurrence ID (GUID): 0fd5eafe-736b-46a9-a528-0558e32a0a68
Taxon: Myristica subalulata Miq.
Family: Myristicaceae
Collector: Binatang Research Center   YP4B0250   
Date: 2012-10-16
Verbatim Date: 16 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 3.9 m in height, DBH 5.4 cm, trunk height to foliage 1.9 m, crown height 2 m, crown width 2.1 m; foliage 0.167 kg mature wet mass, 0.078 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical, narrow; bark black, dark brown; cambium orange; wood white; exudate orange; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: mongtop Local use: timber for house construction, posts, fencing and firewood; also used to light fires by friction with strip of bamboo
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