In Serra da Canastra National Park, located in southwestern Minas Gerais state, we found 11 species belonging to four Vochysiaceae genera: Vochysia with five species (V. cinnamomea Pohl, V. elliptica Mart., V. sessilifolia Warm., V. thyrsoidea Pohl and V. tucanorum Mart.), Qualea with four species (Q. cordata Spreng., Q. grandiflora Mart., Q. multiflora Mart. and Q. parviflora Mart.), and Callisthene and Salvertia with one species each, C. major Mart. and S. convallariodora A.St.-Hil. This article provides a species identification key, species descriptions with geographic data, taxonomic remarks and illustration of diagnostic characters.
cerrado; campo rupestre; floristics