Abstract

BELLO-GONZALEZ, Miguel Ángel; HERNANDEZ-MUNOZ, Selene; LARA-CHAVEZ, Ma. Blanca Nieves  and  SALGADO-GARCIGLIA, Rafael. Useful plants of indigenous community from Nuevo San Juan Parangaricutiro, Michoacan, Mexico. Polibotánica [online]. 2015, n.39, pp.175-215. ISSN 1405-2768.

The study was carried out in the forest area of Nuevo San Juan Parangaricutiro (19° 21' 00" and 19° 34' 45" North, longitude 102° 08' 15" and 102° 17' 30" West), Michoacan Mexico, with an approximate surface of 183.18 km². The forests of the community are in altitudes from 1 900 to 3 200 m. It is characterized to be an uneven region, with slopes that vary of 5 up to 80%, the soil andosol humic prevail. The dominant climate is the C (m) (w) big, temperate humid, with abundant rains in summer. The existent types of vegetation in the study area are: pine forest, forest of pine-oaks, forest of pine-sacred fir and montane rain forest. The present study had as objective to carry out an inventory of the flora useful timber and non timber, for 37 field explorations were carried out in periodic form during year and half, a total of 1 050 specimens collected and taxonomically determined. A list was elaborated that includes 246 species useful timbers trees an non timber shrubs, 135 genus y 58 families, being the most representative the Asteraceae with 67 species, the Leguminosae with 23 species and Gramineae with 20 species. Inside the genus that contributed the biggest number of species they meet Quercus, Senecio, Salvia, Gnaphalium and Eupatorium.The herbaceous ones were the biological forms that contributed the biggest quantity in useful material, continued by the shrubs and the trees. The registered uses were medicinal, ceremonial, forage, timber, ornament, eatable, melliferous, domestic use, toxic and of use veterinarian. The part of the used plant was the complete plant (aerial part), continued by the stem, the flower and the leaf. Of the various forms of employment, infusion, applied directly to the plant area affects the maceration and the poultice, were the most important of which medicinal products supplied oral, dermal and local route are extracted, the sawmill and stewed plant or consumed fresh are other forms of employment. The main way of obtaining useful plants was collected.

Keywords : plants useful non timbers; plants useful timbers; Nuevo San Juan Parangaricutiro.