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CORETTE-PASA, Maria. Ethnobotany study in community of Conceição-Açu. Mato Grosso, Brazil. Polibotánica [online]. 2011, n.31, pp.169-197. ISSN 1405-2768.

This paper focuses on an ethnobotanical survey of plants classified into different categories of use in the community of Con-ceição-Açu, in the city of Cuiabá, Mato Grosso. One of the aims was to estimate the use value of gallery forest plants. Structured and non-structured interviews and questionnaires were administered to adult residents of both sexes, and the following landscape units were identified: backyard, home garden and gallery forest. A total of 180 useful plant species were identified, the majority of which were collected during the interviews. These were deposited in the Herbarium of the Federal University of Mato Grosso. In the backyards of the residences, 86 species belonging to 43 families were identified, the majority of them cultivated and utilized as food (48%) or medicine (45%). In the home gardens the main crops were Manihot esculenta L. (100%), Carica papaya L. (76%), Musa paradisiaca L. (71%) and Saccharum officinarum L. (57%). About 65% of gallery forest species were considered medicinal plants. Prominent among them were the species Copaifera langsdorffii Desf., Aspidosperma polyneuron Muell. Arg., Hymenaea stignocarpa Mart., Diptychandra aurantiaca Tul., Cariniana rubra Gardner ex Miers and the families Mimosaceae, Big-noniaceae, Caesalpiniaceae, Fabaceae and Sapindaceae. The results showed that people are knowledgeable about plant diversity in the landscape units of the countryside.

Palavras-chave : ethnobotany; plants; Conceição-Açu.