Magnoliophyta, restinga vegetation, state of Ceará, Brazil

By

Santos-Filho, Francisco Soares
Almeida Júnior, Eduardo Bezerra de
Bezerra, Laiane Fernanda De Melo
Lima, Liliane Ferreira
Zickel, Carmen Sílvia

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2011-6-1

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

7

Series / Issue

Issue: 4

Pages

478--485

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/7.4.478

 

Abstract

Sandy coastal plain (Restinga) vegetation is composed of the plant communities that grow on Quaternary Neosols along the entire Brazilian coast. Ceará state has a coastal extension of 578 km and lies totally within the semi-arid zone of northeastern Brazil. Here we present a checklist of the phanerogamic species found along the coast of Ceará that was compiled from surveys and collections found at the EAC herbarium (Fortaleza, Ceará). A total of 391 species distributed among 208 genera and 41 families were identified. The families with the greatest numbers of species were Fabaceae senso latu (130 species), Cyperaceae (51), Poaceae (47), Rubiaceae (27), Euphorbiaceae (19), Asteraceae (13), Bignoniaceae (11) and Malvaceae (12), representing over 78.77% of the species collected.