Check List 12(6): e19622, doi: 10.15560/12.6.2020
Vascular flora of the Legado das Águas, Reserva Votorantim, municipalities of Tapiraí, Miracatú and Juquiá, São Paulo, Brazil
Gabriel Dalla Colletta, Vinicius Castro Souza, Thaís Elias Almeida, Fernanda Nunes Cabral, Ivan Jeferson Diogo, Thiago Bevilacqua Flores, Rubens Luiz Gayoso Coelho, Vanessa Souza Moreno, Alexandre Salino, Marcelo Antonio Pinho Ferreira, Natália Macedo Ivanauskas, Jorge Yoshio Tamashiro, Ana Paula Liboni, Antonio Campos Rocha Neto, Carolina Bernucci Virillo, Carolina Feliciano Delfini, Carolina de Moraes Potascheff, Daniel Palma Perez Braga, Denise Balbão Oliveira, Diana Consuelo Castillo-Díaz, Felipe Nery Mello, Flávia Garcia Florido, Isabella Cruz Fagundes, Jesiani Rigon, Juliana Kuntz, Marina Fernanda Bortolin Costa, Mariana Luiza Bettinardi, Mario Albino Oliveira Neto, Renata Bergamo Caramez, Rodrigo Trassi Polisel, Vanessa Jó Girão, Ricardo Ribeiro RodriguesCorresponding author: Gabriel Colletta ( gabrielcolletta@gmail.com ) © 2017 Gabriel Colletta, Vinicius Souza, Thaís Almeida, Fernanda Cabral, Ivan Diogo, Thiago Flores, Rubens Luiz Coelho, Vanessa Moreno, Alexandre Salino, Marcelo Antonio Ferreira, Natália Ivanauskas, Jorge Tamashiro, Ana Liboni, Antonio Neto, Carolina Virillo, Carolina Delfini, Carolina Potascheff, Daniel Palma Braga, Denise Oliveira, Diana Castillo-Díaz, Felipe Mello, Flávia Florido, Isabella Fagundes, Jesiani Rigon, Juliana Kuntz, Marina Fernanda Costa, Mariana Bettinardi, Mario Oliveira Neto, Renata Caramez, Rodrigo Polisel, Vanessa Girão, Ricardo Rodrigues. 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:
Colletta G, Souza V, Kuntz J, Almeida T, Mello F, Cabral F, Caramez R, Diogo I, Oliveira D, Flores T, Fagundes I, Coelho R, Bettinardi M, Potascheff C, Girão V, Moreno V, Salino A, Braga D, Ferreira M, Castillo-Díaz D, Ivanauskas N, Florido F, Tamashiro J, Rigon J, Liboni A, Costa M, Neto A, Oliveira Neto M, Virillo C, Polisel R, Delfini C, Rodrigues R (2016) Vascular flora of the Legado das Águas, Reserva Votorantim, municipalities of Tapiraí, Miracatú and Juquiá, São Paulo, Brazil. Check List 12(6): 2020. https://doi.org/10.15560/12.6.2020 |  |
Abstract
We present a list of vascular plants found in Legado das Águas, Reserva Votorantim, a private reserve having an area of approximately 35,000 ha that spans the municipalities of Tapiraí, Miracatú, and Juquiá, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The reserve is part of a complex of state-protected areas including Alto Ribeira Touristic State Park, Intervales State Park , Carlos Botelho State Park, Jurupará State Park, and Serra do Mar State Park. Together, these form an important and large area of continuous and well-preserved forest. Our study, which involved two main floristic surveys in March/April 2013 and April 2014, recorded 768 species, representing 131 families and 432 genera. The majority of species were angiosperms (619) representing 106 families and 370 genera. There were also two species of gymnosperms belonging to two genera in separate families; 147 species of ferns and lycophytes belonging to 23 families and 60 genera. In demonstrating the presence of almost 800 species of plants, of which 16 are threatened, our study highlights the importance of floristic surveys and the critical role of private protected areas in managing and preserving native flora.
Keywords
Atlantic Forest biome; Serra do Mar; biodiversity; species list