RESUMO -O Estado do Maranhão faz parte da Amazônia Legal e tem sido um dos mais atingidos pelos projetos impactadores do meio ambiente, causando sérios riscos de extinção de espécies vegetais e animais, algumas, ainda desconhecidas pela ciência. Com o objetivo de conhecer a flora orquídica daquele Estado foram conduzidos estudos ao longo de aproximadamente 12 anos, registrando-se a ocorrência de 103 diferentes espécies de Orchidaceae. Os resultados demonstraram a grande riqueza em espécies nesta família, e o quanto ela era desconhecida, uma vez que antes deste estudo, conheciase pela literatura, apenas dez espécies ocorrendo no Estado do Maranhão. PALAVRAS CHAVE: Orchidaceae, Amazônia Legal, Diversidade Checklist of Orchidaceae from State of Maranhão, Brazil.ABSTRACT -The Maranhão State is part of "Amazônia Legal", and has been one of the most affected by the impacts of projects to environment, and leading to extintion many species of plants and animals, some of them not discovered by science. A study with the orchids flora of Maranhão state for about 12 years registered the occurence of 103 different species of Orchidaceae. These results show a great variety of the species in this this family and how much it was unknown, since, before this study, of only 10 different species of Orchidaceae, were cited the in Brazilian State of Maranhão.
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