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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: YS2F0146
Occurrence ID (GUID): 13a02ae8-02c1-4249-92d5-0e48c71d92ca
Taxon: Rhus taitensis Guill.
Family: Anacardiaceae
Determiner: H. Nowatuo (14 Jun 2013)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   YS2F0146   
Date: 2013-06-14
Verbatim Date: 21 Jul 2010
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan
-6.16255  146.839933
Elevation: 1721 meters (5645ft)
Habitat: Secondary montane rainforest
Description: tree, to 10.16 m in height, DBH 6.7 cm, trunk height to foliage 7.66 m, crown height 2.5 m, crown width 2.4 m; foliage 1 kg mature wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical, narrow; bark brown, grey; cambium green; wood white; exudate cream; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: umong Local use: latex used to fasten animal skins to traditional drums and as poison for arrow tips; timber for house construction
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Record Id: 13a02ae8-02c1-4249-92d5-0e48c71d92ca
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