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:
Description - Dioecious trees, or rarely shrubs, the inner bark usually exuding a brownish or reddish liquid, the main branches often conspicuously and regularly whorled, the branchlets usually slender and subterete, when young tomentose or puberulent, soon glabrous; leaves alternate, petio
Description - Dioecious trees, or rarely shrubs, the inner bark usually exuding a brownish or reddish liquid, the main branches often conspicuously and regularly whorled, the branchlets usually slender and subterete, when young tomentose or puberulent, soon glabrous; leaves alternate, petio
Discussion:
Sebophora Neck. Elem. 2: 188. 1790.
Myristica Sect. Virola Endl. Enchiridion 419. 1841.
Myristica Sect. Sychnoneura A. DC. Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 4: 30. 1855.
Virola Sect. Oxyanthera Warb. Nova Acta Acad. Leop.-Carol. 68: 163. 1897.
Virola Sect. Amblyanthera Warb. Nova Acta Acad. Leop.-Carol. 68: 165. 1897.
Native names: Columbia (Putumayo) : Sebo caspi, Coninga