Wood and bark - Specimen details

Wood and bark - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 79173

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Plant Name 53.01 ANACARDIACEAE Entry Book Number
Artefact Name Wood and bark Vernacular Name
Iso Country Papua New Guinea TDWG Region Papua New Guinea
Parts Held Wood and bark Geography Description Mount Jaya, Papua New Guinea
Uses Wood and barkUse: User: Not defined TDWG use
Storage Woods size B Related Items
Donor Donor No
Donor Date Donor Notes
Collector Edwards PJ with RudallP, Tekege D, Utteridge TMA, Willis FR Collector No 4425
Collection Notes Collection Date 09/04/1999
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Flora of Mount Jaya, Papua, Indonesia (New Guinea)x0Dx0Ax0Dx0ACollecting notes: Mimika Regency, PT-Freeport Indoniesia Concession Area: New East levee road, about 1 mile from junction of Main Road at Mile 38.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0ALowland tropical rainforest, recently felled in a n, arrow strip adjacent to road along proposed new levee.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0ASmall subcanopy tree c.4m tall and 3.3cm diam. at ground level (wood samples are from this level), bark smooth with a few scattered fissures, pale olive-green with some small yellow-ochre areas. Tr, unk bearing several main branches, these spreading ± horizontally to 20° above the horizontal, sap black, wood very plae pinkish-brown. Leaves adaxially dark olive-green with a silky sheen, abaxially pale grey-green and matt. Fruit/receptacle slighlt tran, slucent, dull pink (R.H.S. ''red group 47A''), glossy, 15-22mm diam x 15-25 cm high, seed with bright green coat. + WOODx0Dx0Ax0Dx0AHerbaria: BO, FRE, K (RBG Kew)x0Dx0Ax0Dx0ARoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Herbarium Bogoriense, Kebun Raya Bogor, the Biodiveristy Centre, Cend, erawasih University, Manokwari - with assistance from Rio Tinto and PT-Freeport Indonesia.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0APlease send new determiantions to Irian Jaya Coordinator, RBG Kew, TW9 3AE, UK.

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