Sementeca do laboratório de sementes nativas da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso

Abstract

Biological Collections are made up of a set or parts of organisms, organized and preserved for study. Included in biological collections are the seed collections, also called “sementeca”. This work aimed to structure two sementecas for the Laboratory of Native Seeds of the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT), based on the materials that were already stored in the laboratory. More than 1550 seeds, 600 diaspores and 50 fruits were selected to compose the reference sementeca, and 1060 seeds, 383 diaspores and 45 fruits were selected to composse the traveling sementeca. The sementecas of the Laboratory of Native Seeds of UFMT were structured after dehydration of all material at 60ºC for three days, therefore, some of its purposes are to collaborate with biogeographic information of the region where they were collected, increasing the knowledge about the species that occur in the state of Mato Grosso, with the taxonomy of the species, with the identification of species by comparison and with the learning in a didactic way inside the classrooms and outside of them, not being possible to use them for the propagation of the species.