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Family: Combretaceae
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Terminalia archipelagi Coode
Isotype of Terminalia archipelagi Coode
Collector/Expedition: Coode, Mark James Elgar, Cropley, T. & Katik, Paul
Collection number: NGF 29656
Collection date: 28th January 1967
Country/Territory: Papua New Guinea:New Ireland
Collecting locality: Papua New Guinea:New Ireland:2 miles inland from Lavongai.
Latitude: 2°45'S, Longitude: 151°2'E
Habitat: Primary rainforest on ridges and steep slopes
Description: Emergent staraight boled tree. Branches +/- whorled and angled upwards. Buttressed to 4 ft. Crown very irregular. Height 120 ft. Bole 60 ft.Bark yellow brown, flaking into long flaccid strips. Under bark reddish, inner bark red with occasional pale streaks, fibrous, 1/2 in. Wood straw, fibrous, darkening wiht iron, hard; cut twigs eventually exude copious jelly like resin at cambium. Fruit green; wing margin undulate. fruit flat on one side & raised on the other. Many seedlings present. Cotyledons very broadly obovate retuse.
Kind of specimen: HERBARIUM SHEET
Barcode: E00273931
Herbarium region: 6E (New Guinea)
Number of sheets: 1
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