-(Lycophytes and monilophytes from Unidades de Conservação da Usina Hidroelétrica -UHE Tucuruí, Pará, Brazil). This work presents a survey of lycophytes and monilophytes in the Conservation Unit named Zonas de Preservação da Vida Silvestre da Usina Hidrelétrica de Tucuruí, Pará State, Brazil. This Conservation Unit is located at southeastern Pará and comprises about 29,700 ha, composed mainly of tropical rainforest. Our results recorded 18 families, 37 genera and 82 species. The richest family is Pteridaceae, with 21 species, and Adiantum is the richest genus, with 14 species. Three species are new records for Pará State: Didymoglossum ovale, Danaea nodosa, and Pecluma hygrometrica. Furthermore, two new species were identified. One has already been described, Thyelypteris amazonica. The other new species belongs to the genus Adiantum and shall be published soon. The floristic richness of the area, associated with the taxonomic novelties, attests for its biological importance and for the necessity of increasing the efforts on research and conservation of the study area. Key words: Amazon Forest, fern, floristic RESUMO -(Licófitas e monilófitas das Unidades de Conservação da Usina Hidroelétrica -UHE de Tucuruí, Pará, Brasil). O presente estudo refere-se às espécies de licófitas e monilófitas ocorrentes nas Zonas de Preservação da Vida Silvestre da Usina Hidroelétrica de Tucuruí, Estado do Pará, Brasil. A área de estudo localiza-se na região sudeste do Pará, com cerca de 29.700 hectares, composta, predominantemente, por floresta ombrófila aberta. Os dados obtidos demonstraram a ocorrência de 18 famílias, 37 gêneros e 82 espécies. A família com maior riqueza de espécies é Pteridaceae (21 spp.) e o gênero mais representativo é Adiantum com 14 espécies. Três espécies são novas referências para o Pará: Didymoglossum ovale, Danaea nodosa e Pecluma hygrometrica. Além disso, duas espécies novas foram identificados, uma delas já descrita, Thyelypteris amazonica. A outra espécie pertence a Adiantum e será publicada em breve. A riqueza florística da área, associada com as novidades taxonômicas, atesta a sua importância biológica e aponta para a necessidade de aumentar os esforços em pesquisa e conservação da área estudada.

The shortage of reliable primary taxonomic data limits the description of biological taxa and the understanding of biodiversity patterns and processes, complicating biogeographical, ecological, and evolutionary studies. This deficit creates a significant taxonomic impediment to biodiversity research and conservation planning. The taxonomic impediment and the biodiversity crisis are widely recognized, highlighting the urgent need for reliable taxonomic data. Over the past decade, numerous countries worldwide have devoted considerable effort to Target 1 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC), which called for the preparation of a working list of all known plant species by 2010 and an online world Flora by 2020. Brazil is a megadiverse country, home to more of the world's known plant species than any other country. Despite that, Flora Brasiliensis, concluded in 1906, was the last comprehensive treatment of the Brazilian flora. The lack of accurate estimates of the number of species of algae, fungi, and plants occurring in Brazil contributes to the prevailing taxonomic impediment and delays progress towards the GSPC targets. Over the past 12 years, a legion of taxonomists motivated to meet Target 1 of the GSPC, worked together to gather and integrate knowledge on the algal, plant, and fungal diversity of Brazil. Overall, a team of about 980 taxonomists joined efforts in a highly collaborative project that used cybertaxonomy to prepare an updated Flora of Brazil, showing the power of scientific collaboration to reach ambitious goals. This paper presents an overview of the Brazilian Flora 2020 and provides taxonomic and spatial updates on the algae, fungi, and plants found in one of the world's most biodiverse countries. We further identify collection gaps and summarize future goals that extend beyond 2020. Our results show that Brazil is home to 46,975 native species of algae, fungi, and plants, of which 19,669 are endemic to the country. The data compiled to date suggests that the Atlantic Rainforest might be the most diverse Brazilian domain for all plant groups except gymnosperms, which are most diverse in the Amazon. However, scientific knowledge of Brazilian diversity is still unequally distributed, with the Atlantic Rainforest and the Cerrado being the most intensively sampled and studied biomes in the country. In times of “scientific reductionism”, with botanical and mycological sciences suffering pervasive depreciation in recent decades, the first online Flora of Brazil 2020 significantly enhanced the quality and quantity of taxonomic data available for algae, fungi, and plants from Brazil. This project also made all the information freely available online, providing a firm foundation for future research and for the management, conservation, and sustainable use of the Brazilian funga and flora.

O presente estudo refere-se ao inventário das samambaias e licófitas do município de Caxias (Maranhão, Brasil), representando um segundo trabalho com estes grupos de plantas no estado. Considerando que são plantas pouco inventariadas no Maranhão, compreendemos ser de importância o estudo da sua composição florística para o conhecimento da diversidade da flora como um todo. O município possui uma área de 531.350 ha e está localizado na parte leste do Maranhão, onde a cobertura vegetal é caracterizada pelo contato do cerrado com a floresta, havendo predomínio do primeiro. Para a coleta do material botânico e registro das informações ecológicas das espécies, foram realizadas excursões bimestrais entre novembro de 2005 a agosto de 2007, nas quais foram registradas 11 famílias, 14 gêneros e 21 espécies. As famílias mais representativas foram Pteridaceae (cinco espécies) e Thelypteridaceae (quatro espécies). Seis espécies foram citadas como novos registros para o Maranhão [Selaginella erythropus (Mart.) Spring, S. flagellata Spring, Acrostichum danaeifolium Langsd. & Fisch., Adiantum serratodentatum Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd., Lindsaea divaricata Klotzsch e Salvinia auriculata Aubl.]. A maioria das espécies apresentou habitat terrestre, ocorreu no interior das matas ciliares e apresentou distribuição americana.

Ricciaceae is a little-known liverwort family in northeastern Brazil. Fieldwork in 4 localities in Maranhão state yielded 4 species of Riccia, with 2 taxa, R. mauryana and R. weinionis, representing new state records. This paper describes the species diversity of the genus Riccia in Maranhão state, and provides descriptions, ecological notes, and illustrations for each species.

This work is an inventory of ferns and lycophytes of remnants in Amazônia Maranhense. The data provided are the results of collections made from 2010-2011 and 2016-2019 in various municipalities of Maranhão in the Amazonian part of the state. Sixty-four species of ferns and lycophytes, in 36 genera and 18 families, were recorded. Of these, 24 species are new records for Maranhão and four are new records for the Northeast Region of Brazil. The most representative family was Pteridaceae (23 species), followed by Polypodiaceae (7 species). The predominant life forms were terrestrial (37 species) and epiphytic (15 species); the latter is the highest number of epiphytic species recorded for a fern and lycophyte inventory in Maranhão. The data support the need for collecting ferns and lycophytes in Amazônia Maranhense to better understand the flora of these groups in the state.

Despite an increase in studies involving lycophytes and ferns in recent years, Maranhão is still one of the northeastern states with a poorly known flora, mainly due to low sampling. For Chapada das Mesas National Park, a protected conservation unit in the Cerrado maranhense with phytophysiognomies that favor floristic diversity, there are no floristic studies about lycophytes. This study aimed to conduct the floristic inventory and taxonomic study of lycophytes in Chapada das Mesas National Park. Three collection expeditions, of three days each, were made between March 2017 and June 2018. Three families of lycophytes represented by three genera and six species were identified in the study area. The most diverse family was Selaginellaceae with four species: Selaginella conduplicata, S. erythropus (Mart.) Spring, S. radiata (Aubl.) Baker and S. simplex Baker. The other two families, Isoëtaceae and Lycopodiaceae, had one species each, Isoëtes sp. and Palhinhaea cernua (L.) Franco & Vasc. This study also reports two new record for the Brazilian Cerrado phytogeographic domain, S. conduplicate and S. radiata, of which the first is a new record for Maranhão State. Most specimens were found in riparian forest on rocky outcrops.

A new species of Thelypteris subgenus Goniopteris (Thelypteridaceae) is described and illustrated: Thelypteris amazonica Salino & R. S. Fernandes is apparently most similar to Thelypteris anoptera (Kunze) C. Chr. (Brazil-Bahia) and T. abrupta (Desv.) Proctor (Antilles, Central America, South America), but differs from both by the clavate vein ends, basal vein pairs from adjacent segments not united below the sinuses, and petioles with simple and stellate hairs. Thelypteris amazonica is known only from Amazonian Brazil.

Recent statements from the Brazilian federal government indicate that impacting economic activities, particularly commercial shrimp farming, are being encouraged in mangrove areas in the near future. Alterations of the National Action Plan and legal instruments that partially protected mangrove ecosystems have created an even weaker legal framework than previously existed. Such changes are leading Brazil far from the global call to conserve mangroves and from the Aichi targets and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Unfortunately, the loss of mangrove ecosystems and their ecosystem services will negatively impact living standards for Brazilians in coastal areas.