ABSTRACT
The municipal district of Barra do Piraí is located in the medium region of Paraíba do Sul river, and includes Atlantic low mountain rain forest areas in different succession levels. Data was obtained through semi-structured interviews made with two informants (“erveiros” - people that harvest and eventually sell medicinal plants). In this case, the market was the city’s single fair. Questionnaires with straight and close-ended questions were also used for a hundred consumers of these plants. A hundred species from 42 botanical botanical families were gathered at the four visited harvest and/ or plantation farms. A table was organized by family alphabet order including scientific and popular names, and also data reported by the informants. Among the gathered species, 25% were obtained from forest areas, showing the “erveiros” important role at the Atlantic forest medicinal plants harvesting and supply.
Keywords:
Ethnobotany; medicinal plants; Atlantic rain forest