List of plants of the Amazon rainforest of Brazil
This is a list of plants found in the wild in Amazon Rainforest vegetation of Brazil. The estimates from useful plants suggested that there are 800 plant species of economic or social value in this forest, according to Giacometti (1990).[1]
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Annonaceae
Plant unknown
Apocynaceae
- Aspidosperma
- Aspidosperma oblongum A.DC.
- Hancornia
- Hancornia speciosa Gomes
Arecaceae
- Attalea
- Attalea speciosa
- Aphandra
- Aphandra natalia (Balslev & A.J.Hend.) Barfod
- Astrocaryum
- Astrocaryum chambira Burret
- Astrocaryum faranae F.Kahn. & E.Ferreira
- Astrocaryum ferrugineum F.Kahn. & B.Millán
- Astrocaryum jauari Mart.
- Astrocaryum murumuru Mart.
- Astrocaryum vulgare Mart.
- Attalea
- Bactris
- Chamaedorea
- Chamaedorea pinnatifrons
- Chelyocarpus
- Desmoncus
- Desmoncus giganteus
- Desmoncus mitis
- Dictyocaryum
- Dictyocaryum ptarianum
- Euterpe
- Euterpe oleracea Mart.
- Euterpe precatoria
- Euterpe longevaginata
- Hyospathe
- Hyospathe elegans
- Iriartea
- Iriartella
- Leopoldinia
- Lepidocaryum
- Oenocarpus
- Oenocarpus bacaba Mart.
- Oenocarpus balickii
- Oenocarpus bataua
- Socratea
- Socratea exorrhiza Mart.
- Socratea salazari
- Syagrus
- Wettinia
- Wettinia augusta
- Aechmea
- Aechmea chantinii (Carrière) Baker
- Aechmea rodriguesiana (= Aechmea meeana E.Pereira & Reitz)
- Platonia
- Platonia insignis Mart. (= Aristoclesia esculenta Stuntz) - Bakury
- Alchornea
- Croton
- Croton lanjouwensis
- Hevea
- Hevea brasiliensis Müll.Arg. - Pará rubber tree or Seringueira
- Hura
- Hura crepitans L. (= Hura brasiliensis Wild.)
- Manihot
- Micrandropsis
- Heliconia
- Heliconia burle-marxii Emygdio
See also
- List of plants of Atlantic Forest vegetation of Brazil
- List of plants of Caatinga vegetation of Brazil
- List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil
- List of plants of Pantanal vegetation of Brazil
- Official list of endangered flora of Brazil
References
- ^ Giacometti, D.C. (1990). "Estratégias de coleta e conservação de germoplasma hortícola da América tropical". Proc. Simpósio Latinoamericano Sobre Recursos Genéticos de Espécies Hortícolas. Fundação Cargill: 91–110.
