Virola elongata

Virola elongata
Virola elongata 1860 Illustration
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Magnoliids
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 theiodora ) is a species of tree in the Myristicaceae family. The tree is native to Panama, Guyana, Brazil (Acre, Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Pará, Rondônia 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]

Virola elongata fruit

Virola elongata seeds

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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