Medicinal plants used for dermatology treatment in communities of Alto Rio Paraguai' Basin in Mato Grosso State. The use of medicinal plants in Brazil and in special in the Mato Grosso State is being registered by the rural and traditional communities. This work aims to identify plants with dermatologic potential used by the communities: quilombolas, riversides, rural and traditional of the municipal districts of Barão de Melgaço, Nossa Senhora do Livramento, Poconé and Santo Antonio de Leverger. The collection of fertile botanical material and rising on the use of these vegetables was done with the local population. The identified material is deposited in the Reference Collection of Medicinal Plants in UFMT Central Herbarium. It were registered 36 species used in the diseases treatment as infections, hurt and ulcers, erysipelas, labial herpes and warts. Highlight species as: Astronium fraxinifolium Schott.; Bixa orellana L.; Brosimum gaudichaudii Tréc.; Cassia grandis Lf.; Heliotropium indicum L.; Jacaranda brasiliana (Lam.) Pers.; Macrosiphonia velame (St. Hil.) Mull. Arg.; Pistia stratiotes L.; Senna alata (l.) Roxb., come in another. These vegetables are frequently used in baths and teas form. The used vegetable organ was to the leaves followed by the peel and of the stem, fruits, oil, root, the whole plant, sap and seeds. The advance of the agriculture in this state is an constant preoccupation of the botanists and communities who along decades use those medicinal potential.
dermatology plants; traditional communities; Alto Paraguai Basin