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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: YS3G0231
Occurrence ID (GUID): bb544054-6b97-4028-be50-eed12b4a36e7
Taxon: Trichospermum pleiostigma (F.Muell.) Kosterm.
Family: Malvaceae
Collector: Binatang Research Center   YS3G0231   
Date: 2010-12-08
Verbatim Date: 08 Dec 2010
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan
-6.1631  146.840217
Elevation: 1752 meters (5747ft)
Habitat: Secondary montane rainforest
Description: tree, to 22.8 m in height, DBH 27.7 cm, trunk height to foliage 14.6 m, crown height 8.2 m, crown width 8 m; foliage 34 kg mature wet mass, 0.3434 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark rough, with lenticels; fissures vertical, horizontal, narrow; bark brown, light brown, green; cambium yellow, white, green; wood white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: bakop Local use: bark used as lashing for house and fencing construction; stems used as posts for house and fencing construction; firewood
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