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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: YS2F0186
Occurrence ID (GUID): abb6fffd-9315-43b6-9332-92c1881c121a
Taxon: Rhus taitensis Guill.
Family: Anacardiaceae
Determiner: H. Nowatuo (03 Jul 2013)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   YS2F0186   
Date: 2013-07-03
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 7 m in height, DBH 7 cm, trunk height to foliage 1 m, crown height 6 m, crown width 5.5 m; foliage 3 kg mature wet mass, 0.1464 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark smooth, with lenticels; fissures vertical, horizontal, broad, narrow; bark brown, white, green; cambium light brown, green; wood light brown, white; exudate absent, 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: abb6fffd-9315-43b6-9332-92c1881c121a
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