Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #:
YS1J0034
Occurrence ID (GUID):
eb8f7ed4-2dab-488e-a634-b0dfca4c296a
Taxon:Sterculia tantrae Morat Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: Z. Ezedin (10 Jul 2021)
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Collector:
Binatang Research Center YS1J0034
Date: 2021-07-10
Verbatim Date: 16 Jun 2012
Locality:
Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan
-6.164683 146.841717
Elevation:
1855 meters
(6084ft)
Habitat:
Secondary montane rainforest
Description:
small tree, to 10.1 m in height, DBH 10.3 cm, trunk height to foliage 3.4 m, crown height 6.7 m, crown width 4.6 m; foliage 3 kg mature wet mass; bark brown, light brown, grey; cambium light brown, white; wood white; exudate absent, from felled plot. Local name: dot Local use: timber for house and fencing construction; firewood; leaves used as paper for cigarettes