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2013-01-15

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Bonilla Morales, M. M., & Caetano, C. M. (2013). Inventory and valuation of flora used by the village Santa Teresa, Palmira (Valle del Cauca). Revista De Investigación Agraria Y Ambiental, 4(1), 89-99. https://doi.org/10.22490/21456453.985
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Inventory and valuation of flora used by the village Santa Teresa, Palmira (Valle del Cauca)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22490/21456453.985
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Artículos de Investigación
Miguel Macgayver Bonilla Morales Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Palmira, Colombia
Creucí María Caetano Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Palmira, Colombia

The diversity of plants cultivated is associated with food security as well as special benefits for different human communities around the world. The objective of this paper was to determine the plant species used by a rural community formed five years ago, hence values categories were established to learn more about the use value, the number of species per family, the part used and the distribution of species among farms. Among the results obtained, 113 species grouped into 52 families were reported, of which the most representative were Asteraceae and Lamiaceae and Apiaceae with 8 and 7 respectively, all of them associated with medicinal plants. Meanwhile corn corn and bananas have the highest use values (6), corresponding to 28% of the species of food grade. With the fruit (28%) and the leaf (26%) being the parts most often utilized. The farms of Limonar and Encanto, colectively, contain 47% of species of the studied area. The study permits the establishment of the interfamily and interspecific richness and the the use value of the diversity of plants cultivated by the inhabitants of the village of Santa Teresa, Palmira, Valle del Cauca, Colombia.

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