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Bell Museum plants (MIN:Plants)

Catalog #: 970020

Occurrence ID: 18b742bf-595e-4101-b423-2ef57aa90391

Secondary Catalog #: 1371608

Taxon: Litsea timoriana Span.

Family: Lauraceae

Determiner: K. Molem (23-Jun-2014)

Collector: Weiblen, G. D. & Binatang Research Center

Number: NP3B0228

Date: 2014-04-23

Verbatim Date: 23 Apr 2014

Locality: Papua New Guinea, Madang, Numba

Latitude/Longitude: -5.7222 145.2714

Elevation: 1200 meters (3936ft)

Habitat: Primary lower montane forest

Description: tree, to 9.12 m in height, DBH 5.2 cm, trunk height to foliage 6.42 m, crown height 2.7 m, crown width 2.1 m,; foliage 2 kg mature wet mass, ; outer bark with lenticels,; fissures vertical, narrow,; bark brown, light brown,; cambium light brown,; wood white,; exudate absent,; DNA preserved in silica, from felled plot. Local Name(s): mondu, wega wega; Local Use(s): Timber for fence construction and for posts, frame, flooring, and walls in house construction; firewood; wood for making dundu drums.

Notes: BRC, LAE, MIN

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Rights Holder: Bell Museum, University of Minnesota

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Record ID: 18b742bf-595e-4101-b423-2ef57aa90391

For additional information about this specimen, please contact: Dr. George Weiblen (museum-herbarium@umn.edu)

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