Melastomataceae from the “Parque Estadual do Guartelá”, Tibagi, Paraná, Brazil: species list and field guide

Fabiano Maia; Renato Goldenberg

doi:10.15560/10.6.1316

Check List 10(6): 1316-1323, doi: 10.15560/10.6.1316

Melastomataceae from the “Parque Estadual do Guartelá”, Tibagi, Paraná, Brazil: species list and field guide

Fabiano Rodrigo da Maia^‡, Renato Goldenberg^§

‡ Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil§ Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil

Corresponding author: Fabiano Maia ( fabiano.botanica@gmail.com )

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: Maia F, Goldenberg R (2014) Melastomataceae from the “Parque Estadual do Guartelá”, Tibagi, Paraná, Brazil: species list and field guide. Check List 10(6): 1316-1323. https://doi.org/10.15560/10.6.1316

Abstract

We studied an area with “Cerrado” associated to other vegetation types at the “Parque Estadual do Guartelá”, Tibagi, in the state of Paraná, Brazil. Herein, we have a list with all species of Melastomataceae recorded in the area with an illustrated guide including all of them. Despite the small area of this Conservation Unit, the park hosts a large number of species (36), in the following genera: Acisanthera, Chaetostoma, Lavoisiera, Leandra, Miconia, Tibouchina and Trembleya. The region where the park is located is considered the southern limit of the “Cerrado” biome, and also the limit of distribution of many Melastomataceae species. The distribution of the Melastomataceae species along the different vegetation types in the PEG seems to be a pattern for the family in general, registered also for other areas of “Cerrado” in Brazil.

Keywords

floral inventory; Cerrado; Melastomataceae; Parque Estadual do Guartelá