Virola elongata

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image_caption = "Virola elongata" 1860 Illustration
regnum = Plantae
unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
unranked_classis = Magnoliids
ordo = Magnoliales
familia = Myristicaceae
genus = "Virola"
species = "V. elongata"
binomial = "Virola elongata"
binomial_authority = Warb.cite web
url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?401402
title=Virola elongata information from NPGS/GRIN
publisher=www.ars-grin.gov
accessdate=2008-04-05
last=
first=]
synonyms = *"Myristica cuspidata"
*"Myristica punctata"
*"Myristica membranacea"
*"Myristica uaupensis"
*"Palala punctata"
*"Palala uaupensis"
*"Palala cuspidata"
*"Palala membranacea"
*"Palala elongata"
*"Palala uaupensis"
*"Virola cuspidata uaupensis"
*"Virola cuspidata"
*"Virola theiodora" Warb.|

"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. It is also found in Suriname. "Virola elongata" is thin and 7.5 to 23m tall, cite web
url=http://leda.lycaeum.org/?ID=16018
title=Lycaeum > Leda > Virola (Epena) from Plants of the Gods
publisher=leda.lycaeum.org
accessdate=2008-04-05
last=
first=] sometimes 30m tall.cite web
url=http://www.plantes-botanique.be/e1-Myristicaceae-Virola-elongata
title=Plantes et botanique :: Virola elongata
publisher=www.plantes-botanique.be
accessdate=2008-04-30
last=
first=]

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

The Yanomami people use the bark sap as an entheogen, but also as an arrow poison. [cite web
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=QN78GmmPGBQC&pg=PA141&lpg=PA141&dq=%22virola+theiodora%22+plants+for+a+future&source=web&ots=S9ztYbhRVH&sig=dYOYQ027I4WpFsV6DxS9mJfdUQQ&hl=en
title=Handbook of Medicinal Plants - Google Book Search
publisher=books.google.com
accessdate=2008-04-05
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first=]

"Virola elongata" is active against "Enterococcus faecalis" and "Staphylococcus aureus". [ [http://www.scielo.br/pdf/bjid/v10n6/a08v10n6.pdf Antibacterial Activity of Brazilian Amazon Plant Extracts] ]

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