The present work is a ethnobotanical study with objective to catalogue,
systemize and to determine of integrated form the socialization of local
knowledge regarding the species of plants known and/or used for the
inhabitants of the Santo Antonio of the Caramujo community the 31 km of
distance of the city of Cáceres, Mato Grosso. The 35 informers had been
selected through the not probabilist and intentional sample using the
method “snow ball” (snow ball). The collection of data occurred from the
application of questionnaire and structuralized and half-structuralized
interviews. In the ethnobotanical survey the informers had cited 184
species distributed in 66 families. The cataloged species were distributed
in medicinal use category (57%), food (43%), ornamental (11%) and other
(4%).The families with bigger representation had been Lamiaceae (19
species), Asteraceae (16 species), Rutaceae, Cucurbitaceae and
Solanaceae (9 species each) and Fabaceae (8 species). The species that
had gotten a representative value of Agreement of corrected Use had
been Plectranthus barbatus Andrews (27.99%), Vernonia condensata
Baker, Cymbopogon citratus (DC.) Stapf. e Melissa officinalis L. (24.00%),
Chenopodium ambrosioides L. (23,99), Mentha sp. (23.99%) and Punica
granatum L. (19.99%) and the species of bigger representation for the
value of global use (VUsp) had been Allium cepa L. (71%), Annona
reticulata L. (68%), Cocos nucifera L. (62%), Mangifera indica L. (54%),
Musa paradisiaca L. (51%) and Carica papaya L. (45%). The transmission
of the knowledge between the participants of the research occurs through
the daily conviviality between relatives, neighbors, beyond the information
gotten for through electronic. Local knowledge is inserted in the cultural
roots of the inhabitants, in the experiences of life brought of other and
regions in such a way assisting in the future research that, through the
gotten results will economically contribute for the development of the
community and the dissemination of local knowledge.
