Lycophytes and Ferns in the Cerrado of Eastern, Maranhao, Brazil

The Cerrado biome is one strategic for Brazil, due to your diversity and source for the Brazilian economy. The (Lycophyta) Lycophytes and (Monilophyta) Ferns of the Cerrado biodiversity species presente a asignificant, in spite of the few studies to this domain forest. This research aimed to perform a survey of the species and to characterize morphologically the species of Lyophytes and ferns occurring in vegetative fragments of Cerrado in the municipaly of Sao Joao do Soter, Maranhao, characterized with diferente mosaics of Cerrado. There were four trips to the study area from october 2015 to january 2016. The material was collected, herborized, identified and carried out taxonomic analyses. A total of 58 specimens where recorded, distributed in 19 species, 14 genera and 11 families, being registered a new occurrence for the state of Maranhao in the Northeast region, Cylodium meniscioides (Willd.) C. Presl. The number of species of Lyophytes and Ferns recorded in the study area, so far, is the largest for Maranhao.