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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: YS4K0176
Occurrence ID (GUID): 84fb0def-e0bb-485a-aa1f-621ead57415c
Taxon: Trichospermum pleiostigma (F.Muell.) Kosterm.
Family: Malvaceae
Determiner: K. Molem (09 Jan 2013)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   YS4K0176   
Date: 2013-01-09
Verbatim Date: 09 Nov 2012
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan
-6.163883  146.838333
Elevation: 1723 meters (5651ft)
Habitat: Secondary montane rainforest
Description: tree, to 22.74 m in height, DBH 30.5 cm, trunk height to foliage 8.44 m, crown height 14.3 m, crown width 8 m; foliage 20 kg mature wet mass, 0.02 kg juvenile wet mass; outer bark with lenticels; fissures vertical, narrow; bark white; cambium light brown; wood white; exudate absent; DNA preserved in silica, 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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Record Id: 84fb0def-e0bb-485a-aa1f-621ead57415c
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