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Virola elongata

Virola elongata
Virola-theiodora-1860.jpg
Virola elongata 1860 Illustration
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Magnoliales
Family: Myristicaceae
Genus: Virola
Species: V. elongata
Binomial name
Virola elongata
Warb.
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 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. It is also found in Suriname.Virola elongata is thin and 7.5–23 m (25–75 ft) tall, sometimes 30 m (98 ft) tall.

The trunk is about 43 cm (17 in) in diameter, cylindrical and has smooth brown and gray bark. The fruit is ellipsoidal to subglobular, 11–20 mm (0.43–0.79 in) long, 10–15 m (33–49 ft) in diameter and comes in groups of 40. The tree is found in evergreen forests and in scrub up to 800 m (2,600 ft) in altitude.

The Yanomami people use the powdered resin as an entheogen known as nyakwána which is inhaled or "snuffed" into the nasal cavity, it contains a high concentration of 5-MeO-DMT and DMT.

Virola elongata extracts have weak antibacterial activity against Enterococcus faecalis and Staphylococcus aureus.


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