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Corresponding author: Tatiana T Carrijo (tcarrijo@gmail.com)
Academic editor: Gianniantonio Domina
Received: 14 Oct 2020 | Accepted: 14 Dec 2020 | Published: 31 Dec 2020
© 2020 Marina Moreira, Tatiana Carrijo, Anderson Alves-Araújo, Alessandro Rapini, Alexandre Salino, Aline Firmino, Aline Chagas, Ana Versiane, André Amorim, Andrews da Silva, Amélia Tuler, Ariane Peixoto, Bethina Soares, Braz Cosenza, Camila Delgado, Claudia Lopes, Christian Silva, Daniel Barbosa, Daniele Monteiro, Danilo Marques, Dayvid Couto, Diego Gonzaga, Eduardo Dalcin, Elton John de Lirio, Fabrício Meyer, Fátima Salimena, Felipe Oliveira, Filipe Souza, Fernando Matos, Gabriel Depiantti, Guilherme Antar, Gustavo Heiden, Henrique Dias, Hian Sousa, Isabel Lopes, Isis Rollim, Jaquelini Luber, Jefferson Prado, Jimi Nakajima, João Lanna, João Paulo Zorzanelli, Joelcio Freitas, José Baumgratz, Jovani Pereira, Juliana Oliveira, Kelly Antunes, Lana Sylvestre, Leandro Pederneiras, Leandro Freitas, Leandro Giacomin, Leonardo Meireles, Leonardo Silva, Luciana Pereira, Luís Alexandre Silva, Luiz Menini Neto, Marcelo Monge, Marcelo Trovó, Marcelo Reginato, Marcos Sobral, Mario Gomes, Mário Garbin, Marli Morim, Nayara Soares, Paulo Labiak, Pedro Viana, Pedro Cardoso, Pedro Moraes, Pedro Schwartsburd, Quélita Moraes, Raquel Zorzanelli, Renara Nichio-Amaral, Renato Goldenberg, Samyra Furtado, Thamara Feletti, Valquíria Dutra, Vinícius Bueno, Vinícius Dittrich, Rafaela Forzza
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Moreira MM, Carrijo TT, Alves-Araújo AG, Rapini A, Salino A, Firmino AD, Chagas AP, Versiane AFA, Amorim AMA, da Silva AVS, Tuler AC, Peixoto AL, Soares BS, Cosenza BAP, Delgado CN, Lopes CR, Silva C, Barbosa DEF, Monteiro D, Marques D, Couto DR, Gonzaga DR, Dalcin E, de Lirio EJ, Meyer FS, Salimena FRG, Oliveira FA, Souza FS, Matos FB, Depiantti G, Antar GM, Heiden G, Dias HM, Sousa HCF, Lopes ITFV, Rollim IM, Luber J, Prado J, Nakajima JN, Lanna J, Zorzanelli JPF, Freitas J, Baumgratz JFA, Pereira JBS, Oliveira JRPM, Antunes K, Sylvestre LS, Pederneiras LC, Freitas L, Giacomin LL, Meireles LD, Silva LN, Pereira LC, Silva LAE, Menini Neto L, Monge M, Trovó MLO, Reginato M, Sobral MEG, Gomes M, Garbin ML, Morim MP, Soares ND, Labiak PHE, Viana PL, Cardoso PH, Moraes PLR, Schwartsburd PB, Moraes QS, Zorzanelli RF, Nichio-Amaral R, Goldenberg R, Furtado SG, Feletti T, Dutra VF, Bueno VR, Dittrich VAO, Forzza RC (2020) A list of land plants of Parque Nacional do Caparaó, Brazil, highlights the presence of sampling gaps within this protected area. Biodiversity Data Journal 8: e59664. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e59664
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Brazilian protected areas are essential for plant conservation in the Atlantic Forest domain, one of the 36 global biodiversity hotspots. A major challenge for improving conservation actions is to know the plant richness, protected by these areas. Online databases offer an accessible way to build plant species lists and to provide relevant information about biodiversity. A list of land plants of “Parque Nacional do Caparaó” (PNC) was previously built using online databases and published on the website "Catálogo de Plantas das Unidades de Conservação do Brasil." Here, we provide and discuss additional information about plant species richness, endemism and conservation in the PNC that could not be included in the List. We documented 1,791 species of land plants as occurring in PNC, of which 63 are cited as threatened (CR, EN or VU) by the Brazilian National Red List, seven as data deficient (DD) and five as priorities for conservation. Fifity-one species were possible new ocurrences for ES and MG states.
"Parque Nacional do Caparaó" houses 8% of the land plant species endemic to the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, including 6% of its angiosperms, 31% of its lycophytes and ferns and 14% of its avascular plants. Twelve percent of the threatened species listed for the State of Espírito Santo and 7% listed for the State of Minas Gerais are also protected by PNC. Surprisingly, 79% of the collections analysed here were carried out in Minas Gerais, which represents just 21% of the total extension of the Park. The compiled data uncover a huge botanical collection gap in this federally-protected area.
Atlantic Forest, conservation, endemism, plant richness, threatened species.
The Atlantic Forest is recognised worldwide for its high biological diversity, high rates of endemism and great threat (with more than 70% of its original area devastated) and which is considered one of 36 global biodiversity hotspots (
In the past 20 years, virtual tools have become more popular by sharing information from herbaria all over the world to contribute and to facilitate voucher identification, such as the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF; http://www.gbif.org), REFLORA (http://reflora.jbrj.gov.br) and INCT-Splink (http://inct.splink.org.br). The availability of biodiversity data on the internet has not only increased communication amongst herbaria, it has also provided information for documenting biodiversity and its distribution in space and time and, thus, has served as a backbone for developing environmental policies (
“Catálogo de Plantas das Unidades de Conservação do Brasil” (https://catalogo-ucs-brasil.jbrj.gov.br/) is a digital platform created in 2018 with the aim to host lists of plant species that occur within Brazilian protected areas. Currently, the catalogue contains plant lists for five PAs from different Brazilian phytogeographic domains, such as the Amazon, Caatinga and Atlantic Forest. The plant list for “Parque Nacional do Itatiaia” (PNI) was the first made available on this platform (
“Parque Nacional do Caparaó” (PNC), created in 1961 and effectively implemented in 1979, aims to protect areas of the Atlantic Forest domain (
A list of all plant specimens from PNC in three databases was compiled from downloads: JABOT (“Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro”, JBRJ, http://www.jbrj.gov.br/jabot), REFLORA (“Herbário Virtual Reflora”, http://reflora.jbrj.gov.br) and Splink (“INCT Herbário Virtual da Flora e dos Fungos”, http://inct.splink.org.br). Searches were performed in each database on 15 April 2019, using the following filters: (1) locality = Caparaó and (2) locality = Caparao (without special characters). These searches led to a total of 24,655 specimens (JABOT = 4,187; REFLORA = 9,405; Splink = 11,063; Fig.
To obtain a list of species with currently-accepted nomenclature, we manually selected all specimens identified to the species level, leading to the following: JABOT determined = 3,113, undetermined = 1,074; REFLORA determined = 6,637, undetermined = 2,768; and Splink determined = 7,922, undetermined = 3,141 (Fig.
To assess the most collected sites in the Park, we built a word cloud, based on the name of locations where specimens were collected. We did not include broad locations in the word cloud, such as “Serra do Caparaó” and “Parque Nacional do Caparaó”, since they are not informative. We constructed the word cloud using the function wordcloud of the wordcloud package version 2.6 (
To evaluate whether species were native or non-native and endemic or non-endemic to Brazil and to assign a threat category, we used information from Flora do Brasil 2020 (under construction; http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br) and the Red List Authority for plants in Brazil - CNCFLora (http://www.cncflora.jbrj.gov.br/portal). In the case of species not included in the Flora do Brasil 2020 database, threat category and origin (native/non-native) were obtained from taxonomists. We considered as non-native all species indicated as cultivated or naturalised by the Flora do Brasil 2020 database. We also assessed whether species of PNC were on the threatened species lists in the States of Espírito Santo (
We classified species as a priority for conservation when they had a single record collected before 1970 (
The PNC encompasses a total area of 31,853.12 ha (20° 37’ to 20° 19’ S, 41° 43’ to 41° 55’ W), of which 79% is in Espírito Santo (ES) and 21% in Minas Gerais (MG), both in southeast Brazil (
Phytophysiognomies of “Parque Nacional do Caparaó,” Brazil. (Photos: a and d João Paulo F. Zorzanelli; b Mário Luís Garbin; c Tatiana T. Carrijo).
Mean annual rainfall in PNC is 1,481.1 mm, with the greatest rainfall in January (mean 316.7 mm) and the lowest in July (mean 16.2 mm; data are mean rainfall for 1974–2003;
-20° 37’ and -20° 19’ S Latitude; -41° 55’ and -41° 43’ Longitude.
The plant list for “Parque Nacional do Caparaó” contains a total of 1,791 species (Suppl. material
Plant species of “Parque Nacional do Caparaó,” Brazil. (Photos: a and b. Marina M. Moreira; c and d. Tatiana T. Carrijo; e. Renato Goldenberg; f Mário Luís Garbin).
Plant species of “Parque Nacional do Caparaó,” Brazil. (Photos: a. João Paulo F. Zorzanelli; b. Jovani B.S. Pereira; c and d. Thamara A. Feletti).
The richest families in PNC are: Orchidaceae with 152 species, Asteraceae (139), Poaceae (87), Melastomataceae (74), Solanaceae (53), Dryopteridaceae (52), Fabaceae (51), Myrtaceae (50), Polypodiaceae (47) and Bromeliaceae and Rubiaceae (both with 44). These families comprise 44% (i.e. 793 species) of the species found in PNC (Fig.
Richest families and genera of major groups of plants recorded in “Parque Nacional do Caparaó,” Brazil. Values inside the bars indicate the number of species.
The list for PNC includes 1,757 native and 34 non-native species to Brazil (Fig.
We found a similar number of non-endemic (900) and endemic (891) species to Brazil (Fig.
Within the PNC, there are 203 species considered as Least Concern (LC), 34 as Endangered (EN), 22 as Vulnerable (VU), 20 as Near Threatened (NT), seven as Critically Endangered (CR) and seven as Data Deficient (DD), based on the Brazilian National Red List - CNCFlora (http:// www.cncflora.jbrj.gov.br/portal). Most species of PNC (84%; 1,498) have not been evaluated by the Brazilian National Red List (Fig.
Some threatened species of “Parque Nacional do Caparaó,” Brazil according to the Red List Authority for plants in Brazil - CNCFLora (Photos: a and b. Marina M. Moreira; c and f. João Paulo F. Zorzanelli; d. Dayvid R. Couto; e Marcelo Monge).
In this regard, PNC houses 63 threatened species (CR, EN and VU) of Brazilian flora and seven Data Deficient species, based on the Brazilian National Red List (Fig.
Threatened and Data Deficient species of plants occurring in “Parque Nacional do Caparaó,” Brazil, their respective groups, families and threat category according to the Red List Authority for plants in Brazil - CNCFLora (CR = Critically Endangered, VU = Vulnerable, EN = Endangered and DD = Data Deficient). *Priority species for conservation.
Species |
Red list category |
Angiosperms |
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Amaryllidaceae |
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Hippeastrum morelianum Lem. |
VU |
Apiaceae |
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Eryngium glaziovianum Urb. |
DD |
Apocynaceae |
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Ditassa leonii Fontella & T.U.P.Konno |
VU |
Oxypetalum leonii Fontella |
EN |
Araliaceae |
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Hydrocotyle langsdorffii DC. |
EN |
Arecaceae |
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Euterpe edulis Mart. |
VU |
Asteraceae |
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Chionolaena lychnophorioides Sch.Bip. |
VU |
Mikania additicia B.L.Rob. |
EN |
*Mikania hastato-cordata Malme |
VU |
Senecio caparaoensis Cabrera |
EN |
Trixis glaziovii Baker |
VU |
Berberidaceae |
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Berberis campos-portoi Brade |
CR |
Bromeliaceae |
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Aechmea vanhoutteana (Van Houtte) Mez |
VU |
Neoregelia brownii Leme |
CR |
Neoregelia ruschii Leme & B.R.Silva |
EN |
Pitcairnia decidua L.B.Sm. |
EN |
Quesnelia kautskyi C.M.Vieira |
VU |
Vriesea pabstii McWill. & L.B.Sm |
DD |
Burmanniaceae |
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Burmannia aprica (Malme) Jonker |
DD |
Cactaceae |
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Schlumbergera kautskyi (Horobin & McMillan) N.P.Taylor |
EN |
Schlumbergera microsphaerica (K.Schum.) Hoevel |
VU |
Clusiaceae |
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Clusia aemygdioi Gomes da Silva & B.Weinberg |
EN |
Ericaceae |
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Gaylussacia caparoensis Sleumer |
EN |
Fabaceae |
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Bionia bella Mart. ex Benth. |
DD |
Gentianaceae |
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Senaea janeirensis Brade |
EN |
Gesneriaceae |
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Codonanthe carnosa (Gardner) Hanst. |
VU |
Vanhouttea leonii Chautems |
EN |
Vanhouttea pendula Chautems |
EN |
Lentibulariaceae |
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Genlisea lobata Fromm |
EN |
Utricularia tridentata Sylvén |
VU |
Melastomataceae |
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Miconia setosociliata Cogn. |
VU |
Meliaceae |
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Cedrela fissilis Vell. |
VU |
Cedrela odorata L. |
VU |
Monimiaceae |
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Macropeplus schwackeanus (Perkins) I.Santos & Peixoto |
VU |
Orchidaceae |
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*Acianthera heringeri (Hoehne) F.Barros |
CR |
*Encyclia bragancae Ruschi |
EN |
Epidendrum zappii Pabst |
EN |
Grandiphyllum divaricatum (Lindl.) Docha Neto |
VU |
Habenaria achalensis Kraenzl. |
VU |
Habenaria hydrophila Barb.Rodr. |
DD |
Phymatidium geiselii Ruschi |
EN |
Orobanchaceae |
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Agalinis bandeirensis Barringer |
CR |
Nothochilus coccineus Radlk. |
EN |
Pentaphylacaceae |
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Ternstroemia cuneifolia Gardner |
VU |
Plantaginaceae |
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Achetaria caparaoense (Brade) V.C.Souza |
CR |
Poaceae |
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Chusquea baculifera Silveira |
CR |
Chusquea heterophylla Nees |
EN |
Polygalaceae |
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Polygala vollii Brade |
EN |
Primulaceae |
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Myrsine villosissima Mart. |
EN |
Rubiaceae |
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Psychotria paludosa Müll.Arg. |
EN |
Scrophulariaceae |
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Buddleja longiflora Brade |
CR |
Buddleja speciosissima Taub. |
VU |
Smilacaceae |
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Smilax lappacea Willd. |
EN |
Symplocaceae |
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Symplocos itatiaiae Wawra |
EN |
Xyridaceae |
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Xyris caparaoensis Wand. |
DD |
Xyris obtusiuscula L.A.Nilsson |
EN |
Zingiberaceae |
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*Renealmia brasiliensis K.Schum. |
EN |
Ferns |
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Anemiaceae |
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Anemia blechnoides Smith |
VU |
Aspleniaceae |
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Asplenium castaneum Schltdl. et Cham. |
EN |
Dicksoniaceae |
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Dicksonia sellowiana Hook. |
EN |
Polypodiaceae |
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Ceradenia capillaris (Desv.) L.E.Bishop |
VU |
*Grammitis fluminensis Fée |
EN |
Lellingeria tamandarei (Rosenst.) A.R.Sm. & R.C.Moran |
EN |
Pleopeltis monoides (Weath.) Salino |
EN |
Pteridaceae |
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Doryopteris rediviva Fée |
VU |
Liverworts |
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Arnelliaceae |
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Gongylanthus liebmannianus (Lindenb. & Gottsche) Steph. |
EN |
Metzgeriaceae |
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Metzgeria subaneura Schiffn. |
DD |
Pallaviciniaceae |
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Jensenia difformis (Nees) Grolle |
EN |
Mosses |
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Dicranaceae |
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Atractylocarpus longisetus (Hook.) E.B.Bartram |
EN |
Ditrichaceae |
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Chrysoblastella chilensis (Mont.) Reimers |
EN |
Number of threatened species housed by “Parque Nacional do Caparaó,” Brazil according to the Red List Authority for plants in Brazil - CNCFLora, Espírito Santo regional Red List (ES) and Minas Gerais regional Red List (MG). CR = Critically Endangered; EN = Endangered; VU = Vulnerable. Values above the bars indicate the number of species.
According to regional Red Lists, the PNC houses 169 threatened species of ES (
Considering the entire flora of PNC, 24 species belonging to 18 families are rare in Brazil. Asteraceae and Orobanchaceae have the highest number of rare species (three) followed by Bromeliaceae and Scrophulariaceae (two each, Table
Rare species of plants occurring in “Parque Nacional do Caparaó,” Brazil and their respective families.
Rare plant species |
Apocynaceae |
Oxypetalum leonii Fontella |
Araceae |
Anthurium mourae Engl. |
Asteraceae |
Baccharis dubia Deble & A.S.Oliveira |
Chionolaena lychnophorioides Sch.Bip. |
Leptostelma camposportoi (Cabrera) A.M.Teles & Sobral |
Bromeliaceae |
Dyckia bracteata (Wittm.) Mez |
Neoregelia brownii Leme |
Cactaceae |
Schlumbergera kautskyi (Horobin & McMillan) N.P.Taylor |
Eriocaulaceae |
Paepalanthus caparoensis Ruhland |
Gentianaceae |
Senaea janeirensis Brade |
Gesneriaceae |
Vanhouttea leonii Chautems |
Lentibulariaceae |
Genlisea lobata Fromm |
Monimiaceae |
Macropeplus schwackeanus (Perkins) I.Santos & Peixoto |
Myrtaceae |
Siphoneugena delicata Sobral & Proença |
Orchidaceae |
Phymatidium geiselii Ruschi |
Orobanchaceae |
Agalinis bandeirensis Barringer |
Esterhazya eitenorum Barringer |
Nothochilus coccineus Radlk. |
Piperaceae |
Peperomia warmingii C.DC. |
Polygalaceae |
Polygala vollii Brade |
Salicaceae |
Abatia microphylla Taub. |
Scrophulariaceae |
Buddleja longiflora Brade |
Buddleja speciosissima Taub. |
Velloziaceae |
Barbacenia irwiniana L.B.Sm. |
Column label | Column description |
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Groups | Controlled vocabulary ("Angiosperms", "Ferns", "Hornworts, "Liverworts", "Lycophytes", "Mosses") |
Families | The full scientific name of the family in which the taxon is classified |
Genera | The full scientific name of the genus in which the taxon is classified. |
Species | The full scientific name |
Author name | Authorship of the scientific name |
Number of specimens | Number of specimens for the species |
Database or herbarium code | Botanical collection or database of origin of the record |
Barcode | The unique identifier for the record within botanical collections |
catalogue.number or collector name and number | Field sed in case of the absence of the barcode |
The species present a single record? | Controlled vocabulary ("yes", "no") |
The species present only old records? | Controlled vocabulary ("yes", "no", "NA") |
The species is native to Brazil? | Controlled vocabulary ("native", "non-native") |
The species is endemic to Brazil? | Controlled vocabulary ("endemic", "non-endemic") |
The species occur in the Atlantic Forest, according to Flora do Brasil 2020? | Controlled vocabulary ("yes", "no", "no information") |
Phytogeographic domain obtained by R | Brazilian phytogeographic domains where the species occur |
The species is endemic to Atlantic Forest? | Controlled vocabulary ("endemic", "non-endemic", "no information") |
The species occur in ES and MG States according to the Flora do Brasil 2020? | Controlled vocabulary including the Brazilian states codes ("MG", "ES", "ES and MG", "no", "no information") |
Threat category according to CNCFLORA | Followed the Red List Authority for plants in Brazil - Centro Nacional de Conservação da Flora - CNCFlora (http://www.cncflora.jbrj.gov.br/portal); DD = Data deficient, NT = Near Threatened, VU = Vulnerable, CR = Critically Endangered, EN = Endangered, LC = Least Concern, NE = Not evaluated |
Threat category (CR, EN or VU) according to the lists of Espírito Santo State | Followed the regional Red List of the Espírito Santo State |
Threat category (CR, EN or VU) according to the lists of Minas Gerais State | Followed the regional Red List of the Minas Gerais State |
The species occur in Dutra et al. 2015 list? | Compared with Dutra el al. (2015) <https://doi.org/10.1590/2175-7860201566414> |
The analysis of specimens collected in the PNC allowed us to detect a spatial collection gap. Most (79%) of the specimens analysed were collected in a small portion of the Park (21% of the area of the Park) located in MG. These collections were mainly made in easily accessible places of PNC, such as Vale Verde, Cachoeira Bonita, Vale Encantado, Tronqueira and Terreirão (Fig.
Furthermore, amongst the species found in PNC, 445 are described by
A particularly interesting result was the 53 species in the list of PNC that were not recorded as occurring in ES or MG. It may be that these species are new occurrences for MG or ES. One recent study, involving the family Araceae in PNC, reported Xanthosoma maximilianii Schott and Philodendron acutatum Schott of these 53 species, as new occurrences for ES and MG, respectively (
The species list for PNC, presented here, was prepared using information acquired from online databases and validated by taxonomists. This method is considered good practice for estimating species diversity in the “era of big data” (
The authors thank: “Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade” (ICMBio), “Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico” (CNPq 421276/2017-7) and “Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Inovação do Espírito Santo” (FAPES 34/2018) for a research grant ("Chamada CNPq/ICMBio/FAPs Nº 18/2017 - Pesquisa em Unidades de Conservação da Caatinga e Mata Atlântica"); the management team of the “Parque Nacional do Caparaó” for support during fieldwork; and “Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro” and “Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo” for logistical support. We also thank the curators of all the herbaria that agreed to provide images of their collections and publish them in REFLORA Virtual Herbarium. AMA Amorim, A Rapini, A Salino, JF Baumgratz, J Prado, JFB Pastore, L Freitas, PHE Labiak, ML Garbin, M Trovó, PLR Moraes, R Goldenberg, RC Forzza and TT Carrijo are also grateful to CNPq for their respective grants (“Produtividade em Pesquisa”); TT Carrijo is also grateful to FAPES for a research grant (“Taxa de Pesquisa” #19/2018). A Alves-Araújo thanks FAPES for a research grant ("Bolsa Pesquisador Capixaba" # 525/2018). L Freitas and RC Forzza thank FAPERJ for additional funding ("Programa Cientistas do Nosso Estado” processes #E-26/202.775/2018 and #E-26/202.778/2018). LC Pederneiras thanks FAPERJ for additional funding (processes #E–26/202.277/2019 and #E–26/202.278/2019). J Pereira thanks FAPESP for the postdoctoral grant (process #2019/07109–4).