Plants with pink or purple bloomCerrado biomass----------Photographs - Geographical location----------City :
PirenópolisThe west central Brazil is an area that can be divided into two parts:
The Planalto, formed of savannah area, with a well defined climate in 2 periods, rain and drought, and width the "Mato-grosso-goiano", lowlands from which come the sources of the Tocantins and Araguaia rivers.
The village of Pirenópolis is at the limit of these reliefs. The village lies at the foot of Pireneus, part of the division of planalto.
Region :
Mountains of PireneusState :
Goiás - Botanical data -
Botanical family : Vochysiaceae
Scientific name : Qualea parviflora Mart.
Popular Name(s) : (Common names given to plants have very different origins, and thus may be different from one state to another or even from one municipality to another.)
pau-terra-roxo (GO), pau-terra-da-folha-pequena, pau-terrinha, pau-terra-da-folha-miúda (DF)
Geographical distribution (States) : Bahia, Distrito Federal, Goiás, Goiás, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Paraná, São Paulo, Tocantins,
Habitat : Different types of cerrado (sandy soil), rocky or not
Flowering : September to Dezember
Fructification : Dezember to July
Description : Shrub that can reach the proportions of a tree (7m height).
Its bark is cracked and branches aont somewhat twisted.
The leaves are simple, with a length of 6 cm and shiny.
The flowers are purple.
