“…family has a wide geographic distribution with approximately 4.200 species belonging to 250 genera, mainly distributed in the tropical regions of the planet (Mattos, Ferreira, Bovini & Nadruz, 2019). It is subdivided into nine subfamilies, including Grewioideae, which comprises approximately 25 genera and 700 species, in Brazil, this subfamily is represented by nine genera and approximately 60 species (Souza, Monteiro & Melo, 2020). Species are distributed in all Brazilian regions and phytogeographic domains (Fernandes-Júnior, 2020) which can be found in preserved environments, degraded areas, humid environments, margins of water bodies and they can even be considered aquatic macrophytes (Lima, Lima, Soares-Júnior, Pimentel & Zickel, 2010).…”