Virola Warb.

  • 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 Warb.

  • 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

  • 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