Virola pavonis (A. DC.) A. C. Sm.

Medium sized tree, up to 23 m. high, the trunk up to 80 cm. in diameter; branchlets striate, at first ferruginous-tomentellous or puberulent, soon glabrous and nigrescent; petioles deeply canaliculate, rugose, essentially glabrous, 1-2 mm. in diameter, 4-13 mm. long; leaf blades coriaceous or thin coriaceous, oblong-elliptic or narrowly obovate- elliptic, 8-21 cm. long, 2-6.5 cm. broad, attenuate, acute, obtuse, or rarely rounded at base, obtusely cuspidate, subacute, obtuse, or rounded at apex, sparsely pale puberulent beneath (hairs sessile-stellate, 4-6- branched, 0.1-0.2 mm. in diameter), soon glabrous, the costa shallowly grooved or nearly plane above, prominent beneath, the secondary nerves 15-20 per side, sharply impressed above, raised beneath, spreading or slightly ascending, the veinlets plane or faintly impressed; staminate infloreseences broadly paniculate, many-flowered, freely branching, 7-15 cm. long and nearly as broad, at first densely ferruginous- or brown-puberulent, the branchlets somewhat flattened and soon glabrous, the flowers persistently puberulent, the peduncle 2-4 cm. long; bracts oblong, puberulent, 4-7 mm. long, soon deciduous; flowers in ultimate clusters of 3-8, the pedicels slender, up to 2 mm. long; perianth carnose, 1.5-2 mm. long, 3-lobed more than half the total length, the lobes ovate- oblong, obtuse; androecium 1.1-1.5 mm. long, the filament column slender, 0.7-0.8 mm. long, the anthers 3, 0.4-0.7 mm. long, connate to apex or slightly divergent, obtuse; pistillate infloreseences 5-16 cm. long, spreading, freely branching, the peduncle up to 4.5 cm. long, the flowers 2-8 per cluster, the pedicels stout, 2-4 mm. long; ovary sub- globose or ellipsoid, densely and closely brown puberulent, the stigma deeply cleft; fruiting inflorescences sparsely puberulent or glabrous throughout, the mature fruits usually few, pedicellate (pedicel stout, 4-7 mm. long), ellipsoid, 25-50 mm. long, 15-23 mm. broad, usually distinctly carinate, obtuse or subacute at apex, the pericarp coriaceous, rugose, woody, 2-7 mm. thick, the aril laciniate nearly to base, the seed ellipsoid, longitudinally ridged by pressure of the aril.

Virola pavonis is a species of tree in the family Myristicaceae. It is found in Brazil (Acre, Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Pará, Rondônia), Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. The tree grows to a height of about 15-30m tall.