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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #:
YS4F0450
Occurrence ID (GUID):
67b542f4-ae03-4635-a73e-610a3f0b82a8
Taxon:
Rhus taitensis Guill.
Family: Anacardiaceae
Family: Anacardiaceae
Determiner: Damas, K. (20 Mar 2011)
Collector:
Binatang Research Center YS4F0450
Date: 2011-03-20
Verbatim Date: 09 Sep 2010
Locality:
Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan
-6.16255 146.839933
Elevation:
1721 meters
(5645ft)
Habitat:
Secondary montane rainforest
Description:
tree, to 12.8 m in height, DBH 9 cm, trunk height to foliage 8.6 m, crown height 4.2 m, crown width 3.5 m; foliage 3 kg mature wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical; bark brown; cambium brown; wood black, light brown, white; exudate white, 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
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Record Id: 67b542f4-ae03-4635-a73e-610a3f0b82a8
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