Virola rugulosa (Spruce) Warb.
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Authority
Smith, Albert C. & Wodehouse, R. P. 1938. The American species of Myristicaceae. Brittonia. 2: 393-527. f. 1-9.
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Family
Myristicaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Tree; branchlets densely tomentose (hairs ferruginous, few branched, up to 1 mm. long); petioles stout, 3-4 mm. in diameter, deeply canaliculate, 8-11 mm. long, tomentose as the branchlets; leaf blades thin coriaceous, somewhat bullate, oblong, 20-27 cm. long, 7-9.5 cm broad, rounded to a cordate base, cuspidate at apex, often conspicuously revolute at margins, glabrous above except on the densely tomentellous costa, tomentose beneath (hairs stalked, few-branched, 0.2-0.4 mm. long), the costa plane or shallowly grooved above, very prominent beneath, the secondary nerves 23-27 per side, straight, conspicuously anastomosing near margins, recurved toward base, impressed or slightly raised above, prominent beneath, the tertiary nerves impressed above, obscure beneath; staminate inflorescences up to 25 cm. long and nearly as broad, freely branching, broadly paniculate, many-flowered, the branchlets and flowers densely tomlentose (hairs irregularly branched, up to 1 mm. long on the branchlets, about 0.2 mm. long on the flowers), the peduncle 3-6 cm. long; bracts inconspicuous, soon deciduous; flowers 20-50 in fairly compact clusters 5-8 mm. in diamneter, the pedicels slender, up to 2 mm. long; perianth submembranous, 1.3-1.5 mm. long, 3-lobed nearly to base, the lobes oblong, obtuse, at maturity spreading; androecium 0.8-0.9 mm. long, the filament column slender, the anthers
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Discussion
Myristica rugulosa Spruce, Jour. Linn. Soc. 5: 4, nomen. 1860.
Type locality: San Carlos, Rio Negro, Amazonas, Venezuela
This very distinct species is readily recognized by its beautiful large bullate leaves and ample delicate infloreseences.
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Distribution
Known only from the type collection.
Venezuela South America|