The Township of Presidente Figueiredo, in the State of Amazonas, Brazil, was visited for three consecutive years, from 1996 to 1999, with the aim of acquiring botanical samples from the area, in order to carry out studies on the "Taxonomic Monographies and Revisions Preparation" Subproject for the purpose of preparing a survey of the flora. Collections pertaining to the present work are deposited at INPA\'s herbarium and, general information on the taxa studied here were complemented with those obtained from earlier collections conducted by other researchers. Twenty three (23) species and two varieties, distributed in four genera were identified for family Myristicaceae Br. R. Of these Iryanthera Warb. and Virola Aubl. stood out on account of their species diversity, being Iryanthera ulei Warb. and Virola calophylla (Spruce) Warb. var. calophylla the most collected ones. Family Monimiaceae Juss. is only represented by genus Mollinedia Ruiz & Pavón through species M. ovata Ruiz & Pavón, yet family Siparunaceae (A. DC.) Schodde is represented by genus Siparuna Aubl. with eight species, being S. cristata (Poepp. & Endl.) A. DC. the most collected one.
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