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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: YS2J0088
Occurrence ID (GUID): 3b7ad855-01ad-4f35-9190-3afe97cb062f
Taxon: Steganthera hirsuta Perkins
Family: Monimiaceae
Determiner: H. Nowatuo (05 Jul 2013)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   YS2J0088   
Date: 2013-07-05
Verbatim Date: 13 Nov 2012
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan
-6.164683  146.841717
Elevation: 1855 meters (6084ft)
Habitat: Secondary montane rainforest
Description: to 5.81 m in height, DBH 6 cm, trunk height to foliage 1.47 m, crown height 4.34 m, crown width 5.3 m; foliage 1 kg mature wet mass, 0.227 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical, narrow; bark black; cambium light brown; wood white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: tongo Local use: timber for house and fencing construction; firewood; leaves used as cigarette paper
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Record Id: 3b7ad855-01ad-4f35-9190-3afe97cb062f
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