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Nothofagus starkenborghiorum is a species of tree in the family Nothofagaceae. It is native to New Guinea and New Britain. It grows in montane rain forests, and occasionally in lowland rain forests.
Nothofagus starkenborghiorum has a wide distribution across the highlands of New Guinea, extending from the Vogelkop Peninsula in the west across the Central Range to the Papuan Peninsula in the southeast. It is also found in the montane forests of New Britain's highlands. It generally grows in lower montane forest above 1000 meters elevation, but is sometimes found at lower elevations – as low as 610 meters on New Britain, and 700–800 m at Lake Kutubu in Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea.
The tree is used for timber. It has rose-colored outer wood and brown inner wood. It is known by the Indonesian vernacular name sagé merah, with sagé as the local name for the tree and merah meaning red. It is used by local people for houses and fences, and logged commercially. Since the 2000s it has been the target of massive illegal logging in parts of its range.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Nothofagus starkenborghiorum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
