® Bioremediation, Biodiversity and Bioavailability ©2008 Global Science Books Diversity of Angiosperms in Fragments of Atlantic Forest in the State of Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil Anderson Alves-Araújo1,3 • Diogo Araújo1,3 • Juliana Marques2 • Aline Melo1 • Jefferson Rodrigues Maciel1 • Jorge Irapuan2 • Tiago Pontes1,3 • Maria de Fátima de Araújo Lucena1,3 • Ana Luiza du Bocage2 • Marccus Alves1* 1 Laboratório de Morfo-Taxonomia Vegetal, Botany Department, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Av. Moraes Rego s.n. CDU. Recife, Pernambuco, 50670-930, Brazil 2 Instituto de Pesquisas Agropecuárias de Pernambuco – IPA. Av. General San Martin s/n. Recife, Pernambuco, 50670-900, Brazil 3 Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Vegetal – PPGBV/UFPE. Botany Department, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Av. Moraes Rego s.n. CDU. Recife, Pernambuco, 50670-930, Brazil Corresponding author : *
[email protected]; www.ufpe.br/taxonomia ABSTRACT This paper provides a floristic inventory of Angiosperms reported from six fragments of Atlantic Forest in the State of Pernambuco, northeastern Brazil. The fragments studied are of different sizes and shapes (from 12 to 380 ha) and are embedded within a matrix of sugarcane plantation. The inventory was made from 2005 to 2008, with a more intensive effort from February 2007 to May 2008 with an average of 5 days of fieldwork a month. The samples collected are available at the herbaria IPA, UFP, and ULM. Six categories of life- forms were established: terrestrial herbs and shrubs; aquatic herbs and shrubs; epiphytes and hemiepiphytes; parasites, hemiparasites and saprophytes; herbaceous and woody climbers; and treelets and trees. A checklist with 650 species, from 379 genera and 105 families of Angiosperms is presented.