Distribution
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Bolivia (Pando); Brazil (Amapá, Amazonas, Maranhao, Pará, Roraima); Guyana, south; Suriname; French Guiana
Benefits
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Wood used for building construction. The seed exudates a fat similar to those of Virola surinamensis, and is used similarly to make candles and soap.
Habitat
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Common throughout its range. Rather than preferring marshes or river margins, this species favors firmer soils in undisturbed jungle.
Description
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Tree; branchlets striate, when young brown puberulent, soon glabrous and nigrescent or cinereous; petioles deeply canaliculate, essentially glabrous, 1-2 mm. in diameter, 4-10 mm. long; leaf blades chartaceous, narrowly elliptic or oblong- or obovate-elliptic, 9-18 cm. long, 2.5-6 cm. broad, attenuate or acute at base, subacute or obtusely cuspidate at apex, puberulent beneath (hairs cinereous, sessile-stellate, 4-6-branched, less than 0.1 mm. in diameter, long persistent), the costa shallowly grooved or nearly plane above, prominent beneath, the secondary nerves 13-22 per side, spreading or slightly ascending, plane or sharply impressed above, raised beneath, the veinlets usually obscure, sometimes plane or prominulous; staminate infloreseences once- or twice-branched, 2-9 cm. long, uniformly ferruginous- or cinereous- puberulent (hairs sessile-stellate, minute, soon deciduous on the branchlets, persistent on the flowers), the peduncle up to 2.5 cm. long, slightly flattened; bracts oblong, puberulent, 3-5 mm. long, soon deciduous; flowers in ultimate clusters of 5-15, the ultimate peduncles slightly swollen distally, the pedicels slender, up to 3 mm. long; perianth carnose, 2-3.5 mm. long, 3-lobed nearly to base, the lobes oblong, obtuse; androecium 1.5-1.7 mm. long, the filament column slender, 0.8-1 mm. long, the anthers 3, 0.5-0.7 mm. long, connate to apex, obtuse; pistillate inflorescences more compact than the staminate, the flowers 2-4 per cluster, the pedicels stout, up to 3 mm. long; ovary ellipsoid, closely puberulent, the style short, the stigma slightly oblique; fruiting inflorescences 4-6 cm. long, uniformly and closely brown puberulent (hairs branched from base), the branchlets at length glabrescent, the fruits persistently puberulent, 1-4 per mature inflorescence, pedicellate (pedicels stout, 3-9 mm. long), ellipsoid, at maturity 25-30 mm. long, 17-24 mm. broad, conspicuously carinate on one side and often smooth on the other, rounded or short-stipitate at base, obtuse or minutely apiculate at apex, the pericarp woody, 3-4 mm. thick, the aril laciniate nearly to base, the seed ellipsoid, smooth.
Virola melinonii: Brief Summary
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Virola melinonii is a species of tree in the family Myristicaceae.
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Virola michelii: Brief Summary
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Virola michelii Heckel è un albero della famiglia Myristicaceae originario del sud-America.
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Virola michelii: Brief Summary
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Virola michelii là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Myristicaceae. Loài này được Heckel miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1898.
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