USO E DIVERSIDADE DE PLANTAS MEDICINAIS EM UMA COMUNIDADE QUILOMBOLA NA AMAZÔNIA ORIENTAL, ABAETETUBA, PARÁ

Several groups were published in an intimate relation with the plants among them stand out the remnants of quilombos. In this sense, the research was carried in the Tauera-Acu community, located in the Quilombola Territory of the Abaetetuba Islands, in order to demonstrate the knowledge of its inhabitants about the diversity of medicinal plants. Data were obtained through usual methods and techniques in ethnobotanical studies. The sample universe was comprised 34 mothers and two local specialists. The botanical material was collected and identified in the herbaria Joao Murca Pires (MG) and Marlene Freitas (MFS). The Cultural Salience Index (CSI) was used to show the species of greater importance. The diversity was calculated using the Shannon-Wiener index. A total of 93 ethnoespecies were recorded, of which 76 were identified, composed of 68 genera and 34 families, where Lamiaceae, Fabaceae and Asteraceae to be more representative. The most cited plants were menta ( Mentha pulegium ), arruda ( Ruta graveolens ) and boldo ( Gymnanthemum amygdalinum ). The species with the highest CSI was Mentha pulegium (0.43). The diversity index of Shannon-Wiener (H'= 4.14) was considered high in comparison with works done in tropical. The quilombola community of Tauera-Acu presents a vast and diverse knowledge, however, susceptible to changes and losses, mainly due to the gradual transformation of the young people's way of life. Keywords: Ethnobotany; remainder communities of the quilombos; knowledge; diversity; Amazon.