The objective of this research was to evaluate methods to overcome dormancy of seeds of Gleditschia amorphoides. For dormancy's overcoming the seeds received the following treatments: 1) control; 2) mechanical scarfication 3) mechanical scarfication + water/24h; 4) mechanical scarfication + hot water/24h; 5) hot water/24h; 6) sulfuric acid (H2SO4)/1h; 7) H2SO4/2h; 8) H2SO4/1h + water/24h; 9) H2SO4/30min + flowing water/4h; 10) mechanical scarfication + flowing water/4h. Germination was done in rolls of Germitest conditioned in a germination chamber under 25°C, during 12h for 26 days. Percentage, time and average speed of germination were evaluated. The experimental design was completely casual with 10 treatments, 4 repetitions and 25 seeds. The best results were recorded for treatments with mechanical and chemical scarification with averages between 76 and 98% of germination, from 2.17 to 2.88 days for medium time for germination and 0.46 to 0.48 seeds/day for average speed of germination, demonstrating that these are the best methods to overcome dormancy of seeds.
sucará; germination; native specie
