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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: YS3G0337
Occurrence ID (GUID): 379a30ca-bd3d-4387-a156-cfd16c63abaf
Taxon: Turpinia pentandra (Schltr.) B.L.Linden
Family: Staphyleaceae
Determiner: Damas, K. (18 Mar 2011)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   YS3G0337   
Date: 2011-03-18
Verbatim Date: 22 Jan 2011
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan
-6.1631  146.840217
Elevation: 1752 meters (5747ft)
Habitat: Secondary montane rainforest
Description: tree, to 18.8 m in height, DBH 20 cm, trunk height to foliage 6.8 m, crown height 12 m, crown width 6 m; foliage 33 kg mature wet mass, 0.711 kg juvenile wet mass; fissures vertical, horizontal, narrow; bark brown; cambium brown; wood brown, white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: jovi jovi Local use: timber for house construction, fence posts and firewood; fish poison
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Record Id: 379a30ca-bd3d-4387-a156-cfd16c63abaf
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