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Árbol, 5 – 30 m; ramitas jóvenes ferrugíneo-tomentulosas. Hojas con el pecíolo 0.8 – 2 cm, ancho, levemente canaliculado; lámina 9.8 – 32.7 X 3.7–10.5 cm, ovada a oblonga o elíptica, redondeada a cuneada en la base, aguda o acuminada a cuspidada en el ápice, generalmente glabra en el haz (a veces pubescente a lo largo del nervio medio), ± densamente ferrugíneo-tomentosa en el envés con tricomas pediculados, persistentes, con 10 – 18 nervios secundarios por lado. Infls. paniculadas, muy ramificadas, hasta ca. 18 cm. Fls. pardas. Frs. verdes (pero densamente ferrugíneo-pubescentes), 1–1.5 X 0.8 –1.2 cm, elipsoides a globosos; semilla 0.8 –1.2 cm.

Hoja: pecíolo(s) ligeramente canaliculada(s); textura coriacea(s); abaxial superficie(s) pubescente(s); pelo(s) cuando presente(s) sésil(es) estrellado(s)/estipitada(s) estrellado(s)/dendritico; lámina(s) lanceolada(s)/ovada(s); ápice(s) acuminado(s); base cordada(s)/arredondada(s); secundária(s) nervura(s) 10 - 25 por lado(s). Inflorescencia: pedúnculo(s) única; tipo paniculada(s). Flor: andróforo de igual longitud o más larga que antera(s)/más largo que antera(s); antera(s) 3/( 4 - 5 )/( 4 - 6 )/completamente conada(s); perianto(s) fendido(s) cerca de 1 tercio(s). Fruto: forma globoso(s)/elipsoide; indumento tomentosa(s). Semilla: arilo(s) amarillo/naranja; forma elipsoide. Folha: pecíolo(s) levemente canaliculada(s); textura coriácea(s); abaxial superfície(s) pubescente(s); tricoma(s) quando presente(s) séssil(eis) estrelada(s)/estipitada(s) estrelada(s)/dendritico; lâmina(s) lanceolada(s)/ovada(s); ápice(s) acuminado(s); base cordada(s)/arredondada(s); secundária(s) nervura(s) 10 - 25 por lado(s). Inflorescência: pedúnculo(s) única; tipo paniculada(s). Flor: andróforo de igual comprimento ou mais longa que antera(s)/mais longo que antera(s); antera(s) 3/( 4 - 5 )/( 4 - 6 )/completamente conata(s); perianto(s) fendido(s) cerca de 1 terço(s). Fruto: formato globoso(s)/elipsoide; indumento tomentosa(s). Semente: arilo(s) amarelo/laranja; formato elipsoide. Leaf: petiole slightly canaliculate; texture coriaceous; abaxial surface pubescent; hair when present sessile stellate/stipitate stellate/dendritic; blade lanceolate/ovate; apex acuminate; base cordate/rounded; secondary veins 10 - 25 per side. Inflorescence: peduncle single; type paniculate. Flower: androphore of the equal length or longer than anther/longer than anther; anther 3/( 4 - 5 )/( 4 - 6 )/completely connate; perianth cleft circa of the 1 third. Fruit: shape globose/ellipsoid; indumentum tomentose. Seed: aril yellow/orange; shape ellipsoid. Folha: pecíolo(s) levemente canaliculada(s); textura coriácea(s); abaxial superfície(s) pubescente(s); tricoma(s) quando presente(s) séssil(eis) estrelada(s)/estipitada(s) estrelada(s)/dendritico; lâmina(s) lanceolada(s)/ovada(s); ápice(s) acuminado(s); base cordada(s)/arredondada(s); secundária(s) nervura(s) 10 - 25 por lado(s). Inflorescência: pedúnculo(s) única; tipo paniculada(s). Flor: andróforo de igual comprimento ou mais longa que antera(s)/mais longo que antera(s); antera(s) 3/( 4 - 5 )/( 4 - 6 )/completamente conata(s); perianto(s) fendido(s) cerca de 1 terço(s). Fruto: formato globoso(s)/elipsoide; indumento tomentosa(s). Semente: arilo(s) amarelo/laranja; formato elipsoide. Leaf: petiole slightly canaliculate; texture coriaceous; abaxial surface pubescent; hair when present sessile stellate/stipitate stellate/dendritic; blade lanceolate/ovate; apex acuminate; base cordate/rounded; secondary veins 10 - 25 per side. Inflorescence: peduncle single; type paniculate. Flower: androphore of the equal length or longer than anther/longer than anther; anther 3/( 4 - 5 )/( 4 - 6 )/completely connate; perianth cleft circa of the 1 third. Fruit: shape globose/ellipsoid; indumentum tomentose. Seed: aril yellow/orange; shape ellipsoid.

Terrícola

Árvore Arbusto Arbusto

Virola sebifera Aubl., Hist. Pl. Guiane 2: 904. 1775.

Arboles grandes de hasta 30 m de alto. Hojas oblongas a angostamente oblongo-ovadas, 8–25 cm de largo y 2.7–9 cm de ancho, ápice agudo a acuminado, base obtusa a truncada o subcordada, membranáceas a cartáceas, densamente pubérulas con tricomas estrellados pediculados, nervadura terciaria inconspicuamente reticulada en el envés. Inflorescencia paniculada y muy ramificada, multiflora, un poco grande; tépalos 1–2 mm de largo. Fruto subgloboso a elipsoide, 1.5–3 cm de largo y ca 1.5 cm de ancho, densamente rojizo-estrellado.

Común en bosques perennifolios, zona atlántica; 10–400 m; fl oct–mar, fr may–jul; Neill 4279, Ortiz 867; Honduras a la Amazonia.

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Nicaragua to southern Brazil, Bolivia and Peru,

Dioecious, often buttressed trees to 40 m., the younger branchlets persistently tomentose or glabrescent. Leaf blades glabrous above, with persistent, ochraceous stalked-stellate hairs below, coriaceous, oblong to elliptic-ovate or obovate, acute to acuminate, cordate, truncate or acute, 10-47 cm. long, 4-15 cm. broad; secondary veins 10-28 per side, averaging less than 1 per cm. along the midrib, the tertiary veins rather prominent below; petioles canaliculate, 8-25 mm. long, 2-5 mm. broad. Staminate flowers in much-branched panicles; pedicels 0-3 mm. long; bracts inconspicuous or absent; perianth tardily 3(-5)-lobed, 1.3-3.0 mm. long; anthers 3(-5), 0.7-1.5 mm. long, usually connate to the apex, the infra-antheral portion of the androecium 0.2-1.0 mm. long. Pistillate flowers solitary or clustered in racemes 3-7 cm. long, 2-7 cm. broad; pedicels 1-4 mm. long; tepals partially connate, with subpinnate ochraceous pubescence; ovary 1-carpellate, with a sessile, obscurely 2-lobed stigma. Fruits 10-30 per inflorescence, the velutinous ligneous pericarp ultimately dehiscing longitudinally into 2 valves, subglobose to ellipsoid, 10-21 mm. long, 7-17 mm. broad; seed ellipsoid to subglobose, the aril laciniate.

Tree up to 40 m. high, often buttressed, the trunk above buttresses up to 1.3 m. in diameter; branches conspicuously whorled and spreading; branchlets often rugose, at first densely tomentose (hairs stellate from base or irregularly branched, about 0.2 mm. long), at length puberulent or glabrescent; petioles shallowly canaliculate, 2-5 mm. in diameter, 10-25 mm. long, tomentose as the branchlets; leaf blades coriaceous, often shining above, oblong, ovate, or elliptic or deltoid oblong, or narrowly oblong, 15-47 cm. long, 6-15 cm. broad (leaves occasionally smaller on flowering branchlets), cordate, rounded, truncate, or broadly obtuse at base (often subacute toward periphery of geographic range), acuminate, acute, or cuspidate at apex, glabrous above, uniformly tomentose beneath (hairs stalked, stellate, or irregularly stellate, 3-6-branched, 0.2-0.3 mm. long, the stalk sometimes obscurely jointed), often somewhat glabrescent with age, the costa prominent on both surfaces, very strong beneath, the secondary nerves 10-28 per side, straight or arcuate, slightly impressed or raised above, prominent beneath, the veinlets plane or slightly impressed above and prominulous beneath; staminate inflorescences broadly paniculate, freely branching, many-flowered, 8-23 cm. long and broad, the peduncle 1.5-7 cm. long, with the branchlets and flowers closely tomentellous (hairs stellate or irregularly branched, 0.1-0.2 mm. long), often glabrescent; bracts inconspicuous or none; flowers loosely arranged in ultimate clusters of 3-10, subsessile or with slender pedicels up to 3 mm. long; perianth thin carnose, infundibuliform, glabrous within, 1.8-2.5 mm. long (rarely 1.3 or 3 mm. long), 3 (occasionally 4 or 5)-lobed about one-third its length, the lobes obtuse; androecium 0.9-2 mm. long, the filament column carnose, usually swollen at base, 0.2-0.6 mm. long, the anthers usually 3 (sometimes 4 or 5), 0.7-1.5 mm. long, connate to apex or more or less divergent distally but rarely conspicuously so, apiculate at apex, the apiculum single or divided, 0.1-0.2 mm. long; pistillate inflorescences 3-7 cm. long, nearly as broad, tomentellous as the staminate inflorescences, the peduncle 0.5-4 cm. long; flowers single or in small clusters of 2-5, the pedicels stout, 1-2 mm. long, the ovary subglobose, often somewhat acute at apex, densely tomentose (hairs 0.2-0.3 mm. long, with numerous short crowded lateral spurs), the stigma small, sessile; fruiting inflorescences often larger than the flowering, the branches sometimes flattened, the mature fruits usually 10-30 per inflorescence, pedicellate (pedicels slender, 1-4 mm. long), ellipsoid or subglobose, smooth or faintly carinate, 10-19 mm. long (rarely to 21 mm.), 7-14 mm. broad (rarely to 17 mm.), densely tomentose at maturity (hairs 0.2-0.8, rarely to 1, mm. long, with numerous short crowded lateral spurs), at length glabreseent, the pericarp 0.5-1 mm. thick (rarely to 2 mm.), the aril laciniate at least one-half to the base and usually more deeply.