%0 Journal Article
%T Checklist of vascular plants of the Department of  eembuc¨˛, Paraguay
%A Juana De Egea
%A Maria Pena-Chocarro
%A Cristina Espada
%A Sandra Knapp
%J PhytoKeys
%D 2012
%I Pensoft Publishers
%R 10.3897/phytokeys.9.2279
%X The Department of  eembuc¨˛ is one of the least well-documented areas of eastern Paraguay, and the flora is composed of a mixture of forest and Chaco elements. Regions like  eembuc¨˛ are often considered of lower diversity and interest that more forested regions; this results from both actual species richness figures and from under-collecting due to perception as uninteresting. We present here a checklist of the vascular plants of  eembuc¨˛, which includes 676 taxa (including subspecies and varieties) in 100 families and 374 genera. Four hundred and fifty seven (457) of these are new records for  eembuc¨˛ and of these, 4 are new published records for Paraguay. Synonyms, distribution details within Paraguay and a voucher specimen or literature record are provided for each taxon, and a brief analysis of the diversity and importance of the flora is presented.
%K conservation
%K humid Chaco
%K eembuc¨˛
%K new distribution records
%K Paraguay
%K wetlands
%U http://www.pensoft.net/journals/phytokeys/article/2279/