Monographs Details:
Authority:
Smith, Albert C. & Wodehouse, R. P. 1938. The American species of Myristicaceae. Brittonia. 2: 393-527. f. 1-9.
Smith, Albert C. & Wodehouse, R. P. 1938. The American species of Myristicaceae. Brittonia. 2: 393-527. f. 1-9.
Family:
Myristicaceae
Myristicaceae
Description:
Latin Diagnosis - Arbor foliis ellipticis basi rotundatis vel leviter subcordatis apice obtusis vel obtuse cuspidatis et saepe leviter emarginatis distinguenda; a V. parvifolia nervis secundariis subtus prominentibus, filamentorum coluina anitheras subaequante differt; a V. Glaziovii foliis latioribus, perianthio longiore et carnoso, antheris longioribus, filamentorum columna distaliter contracta differt.
Species Description - Tree; branchlets striate, when young tomentellous (hairs golden, few-branched from base, up to 0.5 mm. long), soon glabrous; petioles canaliculate, rugose, tomentellous or glabrous, 1.5-3 mm. in diameter, 6-12 mm. long; leaf blades thin coriaceous, oblong or elliptic-oblong, 10-21 cm. long, 4-7 cm. broad, rounded or lightly subcordate at base, obtuse or obtusely cuspidate and often slightly emarginate at apex, in conspicuously puberulent beneath (hairs sessile-stellate, golden, 2-5- branched, about 0.2 mm. in diameter), glabrescent, the costa nearly plane above, prominent beneath, the secondary nerves 14-20 per side, faintly impressed above, sharply raised beneath, the veinlets obscure or faintly impressed; staminate inflorescences paniculate, 2 (rarely 3)- times branched, 7-15 cm. long and nearly as broad, the peduncle 1.5- 5.5 cm. long, often slightly flattened, with the branchlets and flowers tomentellous or puberulent (hairs golden, few-branched from base, up
Latin Diagnosis - Arbor foliis ellipticis basi rotundatis vel leviter subcordatis apice obtusis vel obtuse cuspidatis et saepe leviter emarginatis distinguenda; a V. parvifolia nervis secundariis subtus prominentibus, filamentorum coluina anitheras subaequante differt; a V. Glaziovii foliis latioribus, perianthio longiore et carnoso, antheris longioribus, filamentorum columna distaliter contracta differt.
Species Description - Tree; branchlets striate, when young tomentellous (hairs golden, few-branched from base, up to 0.5 mm. long), soon glabrous; petioles canaliculate, rugose, tomentellous or glabrous, 1.5-3 mm. in diameter, 6-12 mm. long; leaf blades thin coriaceous, oblong or elliptic-oblong, 10-21 cm. long, 4-7 cm. broad, rounded or lightly subcordate at base, obtuse or obtusely cuspidate and often slightly emarginate at apex, in conspicuously puberulent beneath (hairs sessile-stellate, golden, 2-5- branched, about 0.2 mm. in diameter), glabrescent, the costa nearly plane above, prominent beneath, the secondary nerves 14-20 per side, faintly impressed above, sharply raised beneath, the veinlets obscure or faintly impressed; staminate inflorescences paniculate, 2 (rarely 3)- times branched, 7-15 cm. long and nearly as broad, the peduncle 1.5- 5.5 cm. long, often slightly flattened, with the branchlets and flowers tomentellous or puberulent (hairs golden, few-branched from base, up
Discussion:
Virola Glaziovii var. latifolia Malme, Ark. Bot. 26A (9): 29. 1934.
Type, G. A. 0. Malme 2033b, collected Aug. 6, 1902, at Santa Anna da Chapada, Matto Grosso, Brazil, and deposited in the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm.
Since this plant appears to me very distinct from V. Glaziovii, I take the opportunity of naming it in honor of the late Professor Malme rather than retain his somewhat misleading varietal name.
Distribution:
Brazil South America|
Brazil South America|