Mil y más plantas de la Amazonia ecuatoriana utilizadas por los Secoyas

Abstract

Between the years 2003 and 2008, the research was realized inside the territory Secoya, fits to Sucumbíos’ province in the basin of the river Aguarico, in the communities: Copal de Lagarto Cocha, San Pablo de Cantesiayá and Sehuaya, 14 Cerón - M. et al.: Etnobotánica Secoya the communities are under the 300m and la zone of life humid tropical forest. The obtaining of the information etnobotanic, it was realized by means of the application of several methodologies of botanical study, like: transects, permanent plot, marking of a path etno-botanic and collect at random, by means of the presence in the place of the Secoyas’ members most adults. In all the samplings, it was realized collections for herbalist, the same ones that were mounted, labeling and with their taxonomic identification, are deposited in the Herbalist Alfredo Paredes (QAP) of the Universidad Central del Ecuador. The 1.005 species, included in 543 genres and 150 families, they correspond in great majority to the division Magnoliophyta with the class Magnoliopsida, followed of Bryophyta, the most abundant are the wild ones, then cultivated and introduced. The Secoyas’ names of the plants, in the main they have only one name, followed by two names, three names and four names. The use like feed animal and combustible are the most important, continued of nourishing, medicinally, construction and commercial. The species of the arboreal and herbaceous habit, they are most registered like usefully, followed by shrubs, lianas and epiphytes. The part of the plant most used is the stem followed of fruit, leaf, bark, seed and root.