Virola pavonis (A.DC.) A.C.Sm.

  • 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 pavonis (A.DC.) A.C.Sm.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Medium sized tree, up to 23 m. high, the trunk up to 80 cm. in diameter; branchlets Qtriate, at first ferruginous-tomentellous or puberulent, soon glabrous and nigrescent; petioles deeply canaliculate, rugose, essentially glabrous, 1-2 mm. in diameter, 4-13 mm. long; leaf blades coriaceous or thin coriaceous, oblong-elliptic or narrowly obovate- elliptic, 8-21 cm. long, 2-6.5 cm. broad, attenuate, acute, obtuse, or rarely rounded at base, obtusely cuspidate, subacute, obtuse, or rounded at apex, sparsely pale puberulent beneath (hairs sessile-stellate, 4-6- branched, 0.1-0.2 mm. in diameter), soon glabrous, the costa shallowly grooved or nearly plane above, prominent beneath, the secondary nerves 15-20 per side, sharply impressed above, raised beneath, spreading or slightly ascending, the veinlets plane or faintly impressed; staminate inflorescences broadly paniculate, many-flowered, freely branching, 7-15 cm. long and nearly as broad, at first densely ferruginous- or brown-puberulent, the branchlets somewhat flattened and soon glabrous, the flowers persistently puberulent, the peduncle 2-4 cm. long; bracts oblong, puberulent, 4-7 mm. long, soon deciduous; flowers in ultimate clusters of 3-8, the pedicels slender, up to 2 mm. long; perianth carnose, 1.5-2 mm. long, 3-lobed more than half the total length, the lobes ovateoblong, obtuse; androecium 1.1-1.5 mm. long, the filament column slender, 0.7-0.8 mm. long, the anthers 3, 0.4-0.7 mm. long, connate to

  • Discussion

    Myristica Pavonis A. DC. in DC. Prodr. 14: 697. 1857.

    Virola venosa var. Pavonis Warb. Nova Acta Acad. Leop.-Carol. 68: 225. 1897.

    Virola elliptica A. C. Smith, Bull. Torrey Club. 60: 351. 1933.

    Type locality: Chicloplaya, Peru.

    This species is very difficult to separate from V. carinata from foliage alone, but fruiting specimens are very distinct. Its relationship to V. venosa is less close. In describing V. elliptica I overlooked the earlier name.

  • Distribution

    Amazonian Brazil and Peru.

    Brazil South America| Peru South America|