Uatumã Sustainable Development Reserve, Amazonas, Brazil

Herbs, parasitic and vines of white-sand vegetation “campinarana”

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Layon Oreste Demarchi1, Daniel Praia Portela de Aguiar2, Viviane Pagnussat Klein1, Florian Wittmann1,3 & Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade1
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Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), 2Ministério Público do Estado
do Amazonas & 3Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT)
Photos: Layon O. Demarchi [[email protected]], except images 44 and 72 (by Daniel Praia Portela de Aguiar). Produced by: Layon O. Demarchi with assistance from
Valéria Sampaio, Field Museum. Research support from CNPq fellowship, program PELD – MAUA (MCTIC/CNPq/FAPs-GN: 441590/2016-0). Acknowledgements: We also
thank the State´s Secretary for Environment (SEMA), and the bilateral project Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO). This study is part of the doctoral thesis of the first
author at the INPA.
© Layon O. Demarchi (2023) CC BY-NC 4.0. Los trabajos con esta licencia son libres de usar /
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1 Ditassa buntingii 2 Ditassa buntingii 3 Mandevilla arenicola 4 Mandevilla arenicola 5 Mandevilla javitensis
APOCYNACEAE APOCYNACEAE APOCYNACEAE APOCYNACEAE APOCYNACEAE

6 Mandevilla javitensis 7 Lepidaploa arenaria 8 Lepidaploa arenaria 9 Praxelis asperulacea 10 Praxelis asperulacea
APOCYNACEAE ASTERACEAE ASTERACEAE ASTERACEAE ASTERACEAE

11 Fridericia cf. fanshawei 12 Evolvulus aff. diosmoides 13 Evolvulus aff. diosmoides 14 Evolvulus aff. diosmoides 15 Ipomoea decora
BIGNONIACEAE CONVOLVULACEAE CONVOLVULACEAE CONVOLVULACEAE CONVOLVULACEAE

16 Ipomoea decora 17 Lagenocarpus cf. rigidus 18 Lagenocarpus cf. rigidus 19 Lagenocarpus cf. rigidus 20 Comanthera kegeliana
CONVOLVULACEAE CYPERACEAE CYPERACEAE CYPERACEAE ERIOCAULACEAE
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Herbs, parasitic and vines of white-sand vegetation “campinarana”
Layon Oreste Demarchi1, Daniel Praia Portela de Aguiar2, Viviane Pagnussat Klein1, Florian Wittmann1,3 & Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade1
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Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), 2Ministério Público do Estado
do Amazonas & 3Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT)
Photos: Layon O. Demarchi [[email protected]], except images 44 and 72 (by Daniel Praia Portela de Aguiar). Produced by: Layon O. Demarchi with assistance from
Valéria Sampaio, Field Museum. Research support from CNPq fellowship, program PELD – MAUA (MCTIC/CNPq/FAPs-GN: 441590/2016-0). Acknowledgements: We also
thank the State´s Secretary for Environment (SEMA), and the bilateral project Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO). This study is part of the doctoral thesis of the first
author at the INPA.
© Layon O. Demarchi (2023) CC BY-NC 4.0. Los trabajos con esta licencia son libres de usar /
compartir / remezclar con atribución, pero no permiten el uso comercial del trabajo original. [fieldguides.fieldmuseum.org] [1434] version 1 3/2023

21 Comanthera kegeliana 22 Paepalanthus fasciculatus 23 Paepalanthus subtilis 24 Syngonanthus tenuis 25 Syngonanthus tenuis
ERIOCAULACEAE ERIOCAULACEAE ERIOCAULACEAE ERIOCAULACEAE ERIOCAULACEAE

26 Syngonanthus tenuis 27 Syngonanthus williamsii 28 Croton dissectistipulatus 29 Croton dissectistipulatus 30 Croton dissectistipulatus
ERIOCAULACEAE ERIOCAULACEAE EUPHORBIACEAE EUPHORBIACEAE EUPHORBIACEAE

31 Curtia tenella 32 Irlbachia nemorosa 33 Irlbachia nemorosa 34 Roraimaea aurantiaca 35 Roraimaea aurantiaca
GENTIANACEAE GENTIANACEAE GENTIANACEAE GENTIANACEAE GENTIANACEAE

36 Gnetum nodiflorum 37 Cacytha filiformis 38 Cacytha filiformis 39 Utricularia triloba 40 Utricularia triloba
GNETACEAE LAURACEAE LAURACEAE LENTIBULARIACEAE LENTIBULARIACEAE
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Herbs, parasitic and vines of white-sand vegetation “campinarana”
Layon Oreste Demarchi1, Daniel Praia Portela de Aguiar2, Viviane Pagnussat Klein1, Florian Wittmann1,3 & Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade1
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Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), 2Ministério Público do Estado
do Amazonas & 3Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT)
Photos: Layon O. Demarchi [[email protected]], except images 44 and 72 (by Daniel Praia Portela de Aguiar). Produced by: Layon O. Demarchi with assistance from
Valéria Sampaio, Field Museum. Research support from CNPq fellowship, program PELD – MAUA (MCTIC/CNPq/FAPs-GN: 441590/2016-0). Acknowledgements: We also
thank the State´s Secretary for Environment (SEMA), and the bilateral project Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO). This study is part of the doctoral thesis of the first
author at the INPA.
© Layon O. Demarchi (2023) CC BY-NC 4.0. Los trabajos con esta licencia son libres de usar /
compartir / remezclar con atribución, pero no permiten el uso comercial del trabajo original. [fieldguides.fieldmuseum.org] [1434] version 1 3/2023

41 Utricularia triloba 42 Passovia pedunculata 43 Passovia pedunculata 44 Passovia rufa 45 Psittacanthus peronopetalus
LENTIBULARIACEAE LORANTHACEAE LORANTHACEAE LORANTHACEAE LORANTHACEAE

46 Psittacanthus peronopetalus 47 Struthanthus sp. 48 Struthanthus sp. 49 Cuphea annulata 50 Cuphea annulata
LORANTHACEAE LORANTHACEAE LORANTHACEAE LYTHRACEAE LYTHRACEAE

51 Heteropterys cf. orinocensis 52 Heteropterys cf. orinocensis 53 Ischnosiphon puberulus 54 Aciotis acuminifolia 55 Rostranthera tetraptera
MALPIGUIACEAE MALPIGUIACEAE MARANTACEAE MELASTOMATACEAE MELASTOMATACEAE

56 Rostranthera tetraptera 57 Tococa macrosperma 58 Tococa macrosperma 59 Sauvagesia sprengelii 60 Sauvagesia sprengelii
MELASTOMATACEAE MELASTOMATACEAE MELASTOMATACEAE OCHNACEAE OCHNACEAE
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Layon Oreste Demarchi1, Daniel Praia Portela de Aguiar2, Viviane Pagnussat Klein1, Florian Wittmann1,3 & Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade1
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Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), 2Ministério Público do Estado
do Amazonas & 3Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT)
Photos: Layon O. Demarchi [[email protected]], except images 44 and 72 (by Daniel Praia Portela de Aguiar). Produced by: Layon O. Demarchi with assistance from
Valéria Sampaio, Field Museum. Research support from CNPq fellowship, program PELD – MAUA (MCTIC/CNPq/FAPs-GN: 441590/2016-0). Acknowledgements: We also
thank the State´s Secretary for Environment (SEMA), and the bilateral project Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO). This study is part of the doctoral thesis of the first
author at the INPA.
© Layon O. Demarchi (2023) CC BY-NC 4.0. Los trabajos con esta licencia son libres de usar /
compartir / remezclar con atribución, pero no permiten el uso comercial del trabajo original. [fieldguides.fieldmuseum.org] [1434] version 1 3/2023

61 Dilkea cf. retusa 62 Dilkea cf. retusa 63 Passiflora phaeocaula 64 Securidaca retusa 65 Securidaca retusa
PASSIFLORACEAE PASSIFLORACEAE PASSIFLORACEAE POLYGALACEAE POLYGALACEAE

66 Securidaca retusa 67 Securidaca retusa 68 Rapatea paludosa 69 Rapatea paludosa 70 Saxofridericia aculeata
POLYGALACEAE POLYGALACEAE RAPATEACEAE RAPATEACEAE RAPATEACEAE

71 Saxofridericia aculeata 72 Perama dichotoma 73 Perama dichotoma 74 Perama hirsuta 75 Perama hirsuta
RAPATEACEAE RUBIACEAE RUBIACEAE RUBIACEAE RUBIACEAE

76 Phoradendron crassifolium 77 Phoradendron crassifolium 78 Actinostachys pennula 79 Actinostachys pennula 80 Schizaea elegans
SANTALACEAE SANTALACEAE SCHIZAEACEAE SCHIZAEACEAE SCHIZAEACEAE
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Layon Oreste Demarchi1, Daniel Praia Portela de Aguiar2, Viviane Pagnussat Klein1, Florian Wittmann1,3 & Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade1
1
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), 2Ministério Público do Estado
do Amazonas & 3Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT)
Photos: Layon O. Demarchi [[email protected]], except images 44 and 72 (by Daniel Praia Portela de Aguiar). Produced by: Layon O. Demarchi with assistance from
Valéria Sampaio, Field Museum. Research support from CNPq fellowship, program PELD – MAUA (MCTIC/CNPq/FAPs-GN: 441590/2016-0). Acknowledgements: We also
thank the State´s Secretary for Environment (SEMA), and the bilateral project Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO). This study is part of the doctoral thesis of the first
author at the INPA.
© Layon O. Demarchi (2023) CC BY-NC 4.0. Los trabajos con esta licencia son libres de usar /
compartir / remezclar con atribución, pero no permiten el uso comercial del trabajo original. [fieldguides.fieldmuseum.org] [1434] version 1 3/2023

81 Smilax syphilitica 82 Smilax syphilitica 83 Abolboda grandis 84 Abolboda grandis 85 Xyris cryptantha
SMILACACEAE SMILACACEAE XYRIDACEAE XYRIDACEAE XYRIDACEAE

86 Xyris cryptantha 87 Xyris involucrata 88 Xyris involucrata 89 Xyris cf. jupicai 90 Xyris cf. jupicai
XYRIDACEAE XYRIDACEAE XYRIDACEAE XYRIDACEAE XYRIDACEAE

91 Xyris uleana 92 Xyris uleana 93 Xyris uleana

XYRIDACEAE XYRIDACEAE XYRIDACEAE
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Layon Oreste Demarchi1, Daniel Praia Portela de Aguiar2, Viviane Pagnussat Klein1, Florian Wittmann1,3 & Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade1
1
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), 2Ministério Público do Estado
do Amazonas & 3Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT)
Photos: Layon O. Demarchi [[email protected]], except images 44 and 72 (by Daniel Praia Portela de Aguiar). Produced by: Layon O. Demarchi with assistance from
Valéria Sampaio, Field Museum. Research support from CNPq fellowship, program PELD – MAUA (MCTIC/CNPq/FAPs-GN: 441590/2016-0). Acknowledgements: We also
thank the State´s Secretary for Environment (SEMA), and the bilateral project Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO). This study is part of the doctoral thesis of the first
author at the INPA.
© Layon O. Demarchi (2023) CC BY-NC 4.0. Los trabajos con esta licencia son libres de usar /
compartir / remezclar con atribución, pero no permiten el uso comercial del trabajo original. [fieldguides.fieldmuseum.org] [1434] version 1 3/2023

94 Open shrub physiognomy / campina or 95 Open shrub physiognomy / campina or

campinarana arbustiva campinarana arbustiva

96 Open forested physiognomy / campinarana 97 Dense forested physiognomy with high

florestada groundwater level / campinarana florestada

The white-sand ”campinaranas” of the Uatumã SDR are composed of different shrub- and forest formations that occur as fragmented
“islands” surrounded by upland “terra-firme” forest. There are striking structural and floristic differences between the different
campinarana vegetation formations (photos: 80, 81, 82, 83 above), but they share the sandy and very nutrient-poor soils. Sandy soils
often have an underlying hardpan that causes superficial inundation through high groundwater levels during the rainy season.
Campinaranas are relatively open forest formations, where high incidence of solar radiation combined with the low water retention
capacity of sandy soils subject plants to seasonal drought during the dry season. Campinarana plants need a series of adaptations to
cope with these environmental stressors. Although relatively species poor when compared to the surrounding terra-firme,
campinaranas are (therefore) composed of many specialized and endemic taxa.

Special thanks to the taxonomists who helped the identification in specific families: Greta Aline Dettke (Loranthaceae, Santalaceae),
Rosângela Simão-Bianchini (Convolvulaceae), Ana Carolina Mezzonato (Passifloraceae), Renato Goldenberg (Melastomataceae),
Luiz Otávio Teixeira, Filipe Leite, Thales Coutinho, Francisco Morales, Géssica Fernandes. And also to parataxonomo José Ferreira
Ramos and technicians from INPA: Mariana Mesquita, Valdeney Araújo, Elizabeth Rebouças, Celso Rabelo. The ATTO project team
for logistics and field support: Nagib Alberto, Amauri Rodriguês, Antonio do Nascimento, André Matos, Wallace Rabelo. And the
people who helped in the field: Gildo Feitoza, Maria Julia Ferreira, Gabriel Caldas, Natalia Kinap, Jeisiane Santos da Silva, Gilvan da
Silva Costa, Adriano Quaresma, Anderson Reis, William Bercê.