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Taxon: Turpinia pentandra (Schltr.) B.L.Linden
Family: Staphyleaceae

Collector: Binatang Research Center   YS4G0433   

Date: 2011-03-18

Verbatim Date: 27 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 6.6 cm, trunk height to foliage 9.5 m, crown height 9.3 m, crown width 3 m; foliage 3 kg mature wet mass, 0.0996 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical, horizontal, narrow; bark brown; cambium light brown; wood 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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