This is a list of plants found in the wild in Amazon Rainforest vegetation of Brazil. The estimates from useful plants suggested that there are 800 plant species of economic or social value in this forest, according to Giacometti (1990).[1]
Annonaceae edit
Plant unknown
Apocynaceae edit
Arecaceae edit
Bromeliaceae edit
- Aechmea
- Aechmea chantinii (Carrière) Baker
- Aechmea rodriguesiana (= Aechmea meeana E.Pereira & Reitz)
Chrysobalanaceae edit
Clusiaceae edit
- Platonia
- Platonia insignis Mart. (= Aristoclesia esculenta Stuntz) - Bakury
Euphorbiaceae edit
- Alchornea
- Croton
- Hevea
- Hevea brasiliensis Müll.Arg. - Pará rubber tree or Seringueira
- Hura
- Hura crepitans L. (= Hura brasiliensis Wild.)
- Manihot
- Micrandropsis
Fabaceae edit
Caesalpinioideae edit
Heliconiaceae edit
Lecythidaceae edit
Malpighiaceae edit
Malvaceae edit
Meliaceae edit
Myrtaceae edit
Olacaceae edit
Orchidaceae edit
Rubiaceae edit
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Giacometti, D.C. (1990). "Estratégias de coleta e conservação de germoplasma hortícola da América tropical". Proc. Simpósio Latinoamericano Sobre Recursos Genéticos de Espécies Hortícolas. Fundação Cargill: 91–110.