Virola multinervia Ducke
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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 up to 30 m. high, the trunk up to 30 cm. or more in diameter; branchlets stout, with nigrescent rugose bark, glabrous, those of the current year often angled, densely ferruginous-tomentose, the hairs irregularly branched from base or with short lateral branches, up to 1 mm. long; petioles stout, 4-5 mm. in diameter, canaliculate, 4-15 mm. long, tomentose as the young branchlets, continuing into the strong tomentose costa; leaf blades coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, 25-45 cm. long, 8-16 cm. broad, rounded to a shallowly cordate base, acute or cuspidate at apex, often slightly undulate at margins, above glabrous or tomentellous on the costa, beneath tomentose with stalked irregularly branched hairs 0.3-0.5 mm. long, the costa plane or slightly grooved above, very prominent beneath, the secondary nerves 40-60 per side, straight, parallel, spreading, clearly anastomosing near margins, plane or slightly impressed above, prominent beneath, the veinlets conspicuously reticulate, prominulous on both surfaces; staminate inflorescences broadly paniculate, many-flowered, 15-20 cm. long and nearly as broad, the peduncle 3-5 cm. long, with the branchlets densely tomentose, the hairs 0.3-0.5 mm. long; bracts tomentellous, up to 5 mm. long, soon deciduous; flowers 20-50 in compact clusters 3-5 mm. in diameter, the pedicels slender, 1-2 mm. long, sparsely strigose; perianth submembranous,
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Discussion
Type locality: Near Manaos, Amazonas, Brazil.
This species and the following are very distinct by their beautiful large leaves with numerous secondary nerves; they are readily separated by the upper surfaces of leaves, as indicated in the key.
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Distribution
Amazonian Brazil and adjacent Peru.
Brazil South America| Peru South America|