Locality:
Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan
-6.163883 146.838333
Elevation:
1723 meters
(5651ft)
Habitat:
Secondary montane rainforest
Description:
small tree, to 5.65 m in height, DBH 22.4 cm, trunk height to foliage 1.55 m, crown height 4.1 m, crown width 1.7 m; foliage 0.1 kg mature wet mass, 0.031 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical, narrow; bark white, grey; cambium white; wood white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local name: siviri Local use: timber for house and fencing construction; bark used to prepare a treatment for sores