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Study of the Flora of Rucamanque, Cautin Province, Chile

1989; Missouri Botanical Garden; Volume: 76; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/2399493

2162-4372

Carlos Ramirez, Enrique Hauenstein, José San Martín, Domingo Contreras,

Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics

The flora of forest, scrub, and grass communities was studied in Rucamanque, located near the city of Temuco, Cautin Chile, in the central valley of south central Chile.Forty-six vegetation samples were made, and plants were collected intensively outside the sample areas.A catalog was written for 203 plants species, which were analyzed for systematics, phytogeographics, life forms, the biological spectrum that they compose, the frequency and relative importance of each in the different vegetational communities, and their uses in industry, crafts, and medicine. R ucaman que4*T« rhe House of the Condor" in from 300 to 530 m.The area occupies about 525 Mapudungun, the language of the indigenous peo-ha, including some of the adjacent forests that pie of this region (Ramirez-Sanchez, 1985), is a belong to private owners.The basin and slopes of valley located 12 km northwest of the city of Te-Rucamanque Valley are covered by native forest, muco, capital of the IX Region of the Araucania, which is evergreen in the lower areas and partially Chile (Fig. 1).The primitive forest vegetation of deciduous at higher elevations.In several places this valley escaped destruction during last century's the forest has been destroyed and secondary scrub process of colonization of central southern Chile replaces it.In the higher slopes, originally of de-(Donoso, 1983) because it was protected as an ciduous forest, permanent grasslands of human early watershed area for the drinking water for origin can be found.Small bogs, which we include Temuco (Magofke, 1985).in the grassland formation, appear in open a With the increase in population, water for the on the edges of streams at the bottom of the valley.city had to be drawn from other sources, principally subterranean, so the state lost its interest in Ru-