Os recursos vegetais e o saber local nos quintais da comunidade de Santo Antônio do Caramujo, Cáceres, Mato Grosso, Brasil

Abstract

The present work is a ethnobotanical study with objective to catalogue, systemize and to determine of integrated form the socialization of local knowledge regarding the species of plants known and/or used for the inhabitants of the Santo Antonio of the Caramujo community the 31 km of distance of the city of Cáceres, Mato Grosso. The 35 informers had been selected through the not probabilist and intentional sample using the method “snow ball” (snow ball). The collection of data occurred from the application of questionnaire and structuralized and half-structuralized interviews. In the ethnobotanical survey the informers had cited 184 species distributed in 66 families. The cataloged species were distributed in medicinal use category (57%), food (43%), ornamental (11%) and other (4%).The families with bigger representation had been Lamiaceae (19 species), Asteraceae (16 species), Rutaceae, Cucurbitaceae and Solanaceae (9 species each) and Fabaceae (8 species). The species that had gotten a representative value of Agreement of corrected Use had been Plectranthus barbatus Andrews (27.99%), Vernonia condensata Baker, Cymbopogon citratus (DC.) Stapf. e Melissa officinalis L. (24.00%), Chenopodium ambrosioides L. (23,99), Mentha sp. (23.99%) and Punica granatum L. (19.99%) and the species of bigger representation for the value of global use (VUsp) had been Allium cepa L. (71%), Annona reticulata L. (68%), Cocos nucifera L. (62%), Mangifera indica L. (54%), Musa paradisiaca L. (51%) and Carica papaya L. (45%). The transmission of the knowledge between the participants of the research occurs through the daily conviviality between relatives, neighbors, beyond the information gotten for through electronic. Local knowledge is inserted in the cultural roots of the inhabitants, in the experiences of life brought of other and regions in such a way assisting in the future research that, through the gotten results will economically contribute for the development of the community and the dissemination of local knowledge.