Mantiqueira Ridge is a chain of mountains that represents an important area of Brazilian southeastern. Moraceae is among the richest families on species's diversity of Mantiqueira's flora, being that Dorstenia stands out as the second genus more representative in number of species, after of Ficus. This paper presents descriptions, observations on phenology and geographic distribution, comments and illustrations of native species of Dorstenia (Moraceae). After reviewing the bibliography and analyzing the collected material and botanical collections, 14 native species were found within Mantiqueira Ridge, among them, two new species described during this study.
Conservation; Diversity; Dorstenieae; Atlantic Rainforest; Floristic
