Diversidad taxonómica y funcional de la familia Celastraceae en Norte de Santander. Colombia.

Abstract

In Colombia, studies of the Celastraceae family have been carried out at a taxonomic and palynological level to identify the species composition and geographic distribution, revealing that this group of plants is recorded with the greatest diversity in the Andean, sub-Andean and tropical regions. Despite this, there is a lack of exploration in the territory of Norte de Santander, where the distribution and richness of the species must be determined by the different life zones, which in turn are conditioned by environmental variables, such as climate. and the altitude; therefore, the taxonomic characterization of the Celastraceae species in Norte de Santander was carried out, covering 3 life zones, through field exploration and some records from the HECASA herbarium with the aim of establishing taxonomic and functional differences of this family found in the life zones: tropical dry forest, Andean forest and high Andean forest. There were 4 new genus records for this family, which are Celastrus, Monteverdia, Pristimera and Salacia in 6 new records of species for the flora of Norte de Santander with the creation of dichotomous keys for the identification of each one of these in the department. also finding significant differences in the functional traits for the species Cheiloclinium hipocrateoides found in the municipality of Toledo, dry-tropical humid forest.