Banco de dados de piperaceae nos herbários da Amazônia

Abstract

The Piperaceae family is one of the most important in the Amazon region with many species presenting great potential for economic use in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, producing derivatives for use in perfumery, phytopharmaceuticals and insecticides. The present work aimed to group the existing information in the most important herbaria of the Amazon region, making this information available in a database in order to allow quick and safe queries, identifying species, collection sites, habitat, habit, collector, author, and general observations. The herbaria of the Emílio Goeldi Museum of Pará (MPEG), the Center for Agroforestry Research in the Eastern Amazon (CPATU/EMBRAPA) and the National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA) were consulted. The data obtained were entered into the Database created in Microsoft ACCESS environment, with spreadsheets, forms and reports that facilitate the user interface. Information on 3,860 individuals within the Piperaceae family was catalogued, with the genus Piper standing out as the most frequent in the region. The state of Pará has the largest number of individuals collected mainly in the south and northeast of the state, while the states of Acre and Amazonas present a greater variability of species. This work will allow a better knowledge of the Piperaceae family, besides helping in the future botanical collection of its species. (Supported by the Brazilian Academy of Sciences).