%0 Journal Article %T Composi£¿£¿o flor¨ªstica das esp¨¦cies vasculares e car¨¢ter sucessional da flora arb¨®rea de um fragmento de Floresta Estacional Semidecidual no Sul do Brasil %A Costa %A Janete Teixeira %A Estevan %A Daniela Aparecida %A Bianchini %A Edmilson %A Fonseca %A In¨ºs Cristina de Batista %J Brazilian Journal of Botany %D 2011 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S0100-84042011000300014 %X the floristic composition of vascular species present in an urban forest remnant in the ibipor£¿ forest park (23¡ã15'71" s and 51¡ã01'83" w, park entrance), southern brazil, was studied from may 2006 to may 2008. the species were divided in life form and tree species were placed in successional categories. a total of 176 native species, 147 genera and 57 families were found. the majority of species were angiosperms (98%) while 2% were pteridophyta. the richest families were fabaceae (19), bignoniaceae, malvaceae (nine), meliaceae and rubiaceae (eight). the tree species were majority (53%), following by herbaceous (16%), vines (14%), shrubs (13%) and epiphyte species (4%). the successional characterization of the tree species showed a slight predominance of the late secondary species (52%) over species of early succession (45%), indicating that the vegetation of the pfi is in the intermediate to advanced stage of ecological succession. %K ecological succession %K forest remnant %K richness %K successional groups %K urban park. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0100-84042011000300014&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en