Author(s)

Marcelo Galeazzi Caxambú¹, Henrique Cesar Lopes Geraldino^2*, Ana Claudia Milani Solvalagem³

¹Curator of the herbarium (HCF), Federal Technologic University of Paraná (UTFPR), Campo Mourão, Brazil.
²Master in Environmental Sciences, State University of Maringá (UEM), Maringá,Brazil.
³Environmental Engineer, Federal Technologic University of Paraná (UTFPR), Campo Mourão, Brazil.

The aim of the present study was to present the wealth, ecological characteristics and the floristic similarity of ferns and lycophytes from two forest areas of the municipality of Campo Mour?o, PR, Brazil. The vegetation of the municipality is characterized mainly by an ecotone between the Seasonal Semideciduous Forest and Mixed Ombrophilous Forest. We recorded 56 species, distributed in 31 genera and 16 families. The most representative families were Pteridaceae (14) and Polypodiaceae (11) and the wealthier genre was Thelypteris (6). The terricolous species were predominant (72%) and the preferential environments were riparian vegetation and forest interior (70%). The flora of Campo Mour?o was more similar to the studies conducted in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, and the cophenetic correlation coefficient (r = 0.9058) showed a consistent adjust. In the principal components analysis (PCA) the variance explained by the two principal components was 72.99%. The wealth found in this study corresponds to approximately 11.4% of the flora of ferns and lycophytes of Paraná. Future contributions are needed to increase the knowledge about the flora of ferns and lycophytes in areas of ecotone, mainly in the region of Campo Mour?o, where the studies are scarce.

Diversity, Floristic, Jaccard, Similarity, Lycophytes

Caxambú, M. , Geraldino, H. and Solvalagem, A. (2015) Ferns and Lycophytes in Two Areas of Ecotone between Seasonal Semideciduous Forest and Mixed Ombrophilous Forest in Campo Mourão, Paraná, Brazil. Open Journal of Forestry, 5, 195-209. doi: 10.4236/ojf.2015.52018.