Virola elongata

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Virola elongata
Virola elongata 1860 Illustration
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Magnoliales Family: Myristicaceae Genus: Virola Species: V. elongata
Binomial name
Virola elongata Warb.[1]
Synonyms
Myristica cuspidata[2] Myristica punctata[2] Myristica membranacea[2] Myristica uaupensis[2] Palala punctata[2] Palala uaupensis[2] Palala cuspidata[2] Palala membranacea[2] Palala elongata[2] Palala uaupensis[2] Virola cuspidata uaupensis[2] Virola cuspidata[2] Virola theiodora Warb.[1]

Virola elongata (syn. Virola theodora ) is a species of tree in the Myristicaceae family. The tree is native to Panama, Guyana, Brazil (Acre (state), Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Para, Rondonia and Roraima), Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.^[1][2] It is also found in Suriname.^[2] Virola elongata is thin and 7.5 to 23m tall,^[3] sometimes 30m tall.^[2]

The trunk is about 43 cm in diameter, cylindrical and has smooth brown and gray bark.^[3] The fruit is ellipsoidal to subglobular, 11-20 mm long, 10-15 mm in diameter and comes in groups of 40.^[2] The tree is found in evergreen forests and in scrub up to 800 m in altitude.^[2]

The Yanomami people use the bark sap as an entheogen, but also as an arrow poison.^[4]

Virola elongata is active against Enterococcus faecalis and Staphylococcus aureus.^[5]

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