Richness and similarity of the Cerrado vascular flora in the central west region of São Paulo state, Brazil

Katia Ishara; Rita Maimoni-Rodella

doi:10.15560/8.1.032

Check List 8(1): 32-42, doi: 10.15560/8.1.032

Richness and similarity of the Cerrado vascular flora in the central west region of São Paulo state, Brazil

Katia Losano Ishara^‡, Rita C. S. Maimoni-Rodella^‡

‡ Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil

Corresponding author: Katia Ishara ( katialosano@yahoo.com.br )

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Citation: Ishara K, Maimoni-Rodella R (2012) Richness and similarity of the Cerrado vascular flora in the central west region of São Paulo state, Brazil. Check List 8(1): 32-42. https://doi.org/10.15560/8.1.032

Abstract

This study aims to characterize and compare three Cerrado areas (one cerradão and two cerrado sensu stricto areas) in Patrânia, São Paulo state, southeastern Brazil, concerning the floristic composition. In total, 250 taxa were found belonging to four species of pteridophytes, one species of an exotic gymnosperm and 243 species of angiosperms. Differences in species number and proportion of the woody and herbaceous components were observed among the three Cerrado areas. The similarity analysis revealed that the cerradão seems quite peculiar, showing low similarity level with the cerrado sensu stricto areas contiguous to it, being more similar to other cerradão areas located in nearby municipalities.

Keywords

flora; Brazil; species inventory; Cerrado