Virola calophylloidea Markgr.

  • Authority

    Smith, Albert C. & Wodehouse, R. P. 1938. The American species of Myristicaceae. Brittonia. 2: 393-527. f. 1-9.

  • Family

    Myristicaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Virola calophylloidea Markgr.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Slender tree up to 15 m. high, the branchlets elongate, subterete or slightly angled, densely and closely ferruginous-puberulent, soon glabrous and cincereous; petioles deeply canaliculate or subterete, 1.5-3 mm. in diameter, 7-17 mm. long, puberulent as the branchlets; leaf blades coriaceous, narrowly oblong or narrowly elliptic, 16-33 cm. long, 4.5-8 cm. broad, cordate to rounded or broadly obtuse at base, long acuminate at apex, uniformly and densely tomentellous beneath (hairs sessile-stellate, several-branched, 0.1-0.2 mm. in diameter, sometimes with darker centers, sometimes interspersed with dark punctations), the costa prominent on both surfaces, strong beneath, the secondary nerves 12-20 per side, curved near margins, impressed or slightly raised above, prominent beneath, the veinlets obscure or faintly prominulous; staminate inflorescences feew-branched, comparatively few-flowered, 1-4 cm. long, the peduncle less than 1 cm. long, with the branchlets and flowers closely dark brown tomentellous (hairs sessile-stellate, 5-8- branched, about 0.1 mm. in diameter), ebracteate; flowers in ultimate clusters of 2-8, the pedicels slender, up to 1.5 mm. long; perianth carnose, infundibuliform, 1.7-2 mm. long, 3-cleft about one-third of the length, the lobes rounded or obtuse; androecium 1.2-1.4 mm. long, the filament column thick carnose, abruptly narrowed at apex, 0.7-0.8 mm.

  • Discussion

    Virota lepidota A. C. Smith, Brittonia 2: 152. 1936.

    Type locality: Near Manaos, Amazonas, Brazil

  • Distribution

    Amazonian Brazil, in the basins of the Rio Negro and

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