This study consists in a fioristic survey of Papilionoideae species at shrub and herbaceous layer of Mata do Paraíso, an important fragment of Submontain Semideciduos Seasonal Forest, Viçosa Municipality, "Zona da Mata Mineira" region. The field work was carried out in the studied area, from July/2004 to August/2005, along the trials already set up. Descriptions illustrations, identification keys to the collected taxa, and comments on the geografic distribution and diagnostic characters were presented. The results of this work were the recognition of 19 taxa belonging to nine genera. From these, Desmodium (six species) and Crotalaria (four species) were the most representative.
Atlantic Forest; Leguminosae; Semideciduos Seasonal Forest
