This document contains photographs and descriptions of 80 species of flowering plants found across four different locations in the Atlantic Forest region of eastern Minas Gerais, Brazil: the Rio Carangola basin, Fazenda Santa Rita, Caparaó National Park, and Serra do Brigadeiro State Park. Each species is numbered and identified by its scientific name and plant family. Brief descriptions are provided for each location highlighting its distinctive landscape features. The document was produced by botanists from The Field Museum with support from environmental foundations.

1. RIO CARANGOLA BASIN, Forest Zone, East Minas Gerais, BRASIL
FLOWERING PLANTS of the Atlantic Mountain Complex 1
WEB VERSION Lúcio de Souza Leoni - Herbário-GFJP-FAFILE/UEMG, Carangola, MG.
Photos by: L. S. Leoni & L. C. Medeiros. Produced by: R. B. Foster & S. Kaplan, Environmental & Conservation Programs, The Field Museum, [http://www.fmnh.org/plantguides/]
Support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation; and special thanks to Carlos Heinisch and Renata Izidoro Lima.
© L.S. Leoni [leoni@carangola.br], and The Field Museum, Chicago, IL 60605 USA [RRC@fmnh.org] Rapid Color Guide #167 version 1.0
1 Gallery Forest 2 Mandevilla venulosa 3 Pyrostegia venusta 4 Tabebuia ochracea 5 Pseudobombax grandiflorum
Rio Carangola APOCYNACEAE BIGNONIACEAE BIGNONIACEAE BOMBACACEAE
6 Aechmea lamarchei 7 Aechmea phanerophlebia 8 Billbergia amoema 9 Quesnelia quesneliana 10 Sinningia carangolensis
BROMELIACEAE BROMELIACEAE BROMELIACEAE BROMELIACEAE GESNERIACEAE
11 Sinningia speciosa 12 Vanhouttea pendula 13 Utricularia nelumbifolia 14 Corymborchis flava 15 Encyclia allemanoides
GESNERIACEAE GESNERIACEAE LENTIBULARIACEAE ORCHIDACEAE ORCHIDACEAE
16 Epidendrum secundum 17 Miltonia spectabilis 18 Passiflora alata 19 Passiflora haematostigma 20 Nanuza plicata
ORCHIDACEAE ORCHIDACEAE PASSIFLORACEAE PASSIFLORACEAE VELLOZIACEAE

2. FAZENDA SANTA RITA, Forest Zone, East Minas Gerais, BRASIL
2 FLOWERING PLANTS of the Atlantic Mountain Complex
Lúcio de Souza Leoni - Herbário-GFJP-FAFILE/UEMG, Carangola, MG. WEB VERSION
Photos by: L. S. Leoni & L. C. Medeiros. Produced by: R. B. Foster & S. Kaplan, Environmental & Conservation Programs, The Field Museum, [http://www.fmnh.org/plantguides/]
Support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation; and special thanks to Carlos Heinisch and Renata Izidoro Lima.
© L.S. Leoni [leoni@carangola.br], and The Field Museum, Chicago, IL 60605 USA [RRC@fmnh.org] Rapid Color Guide #167 version 1.0
21 Fragments of Atlantic Forest 22 Aphelandra clausenii 23 Astrocaryum aculeatissimum 24 Syagrus romanzoffiana 25 Billbergia iridifolia
Fazenda Santa Rita ACANTHACEAE ARECACEAE ARECACEAE BROMELIACEAE
26 Billbergia porteana 27 Cecropia hololeuca 28 Sloanea retusa 29 Dalbergia nigra 30 Machaerium angustifolium
BROMELIACEAE CECROPIACEAE ELAEOCARPACEAE FABACEAE FABACEAE
31 Machaerium nictitans 32 Nematanthus sp. nov. 33 Lecythis pisonis 34 Dorstenia arifolia 35 Cybianthus sp.
FABACEAE GESNERIACEAE LECYTHIDACEAE MORACEAE MYRSINACEAE
36 Palicourea longepedunculata 37 Psychotria nuda 38 Brunfelsia hydrangaeformis 39 Sterculia chicha 40 Urera baccifera
RUBIACEAE RUBIACEAE SOLANACEAE STERCULIACEAE URTICACEAE

3. CAPARAO NATIONAL PARK, East Minas Gerais, BRASIL
FLOWERING PLANTS of the Atlantic Mountain Complex 3
WEB VERSION Lúcio de Souza Leoni - Herbário-GFJP-FAFILE/UEMG, Carangola, MG.
Photos by: L. C. Medeiros & L. S. Leoni. Produced by: R. B. Foster & S. Kaplan, Environmental & Conservation Programs, The Field Museum, [http://www.fmnh.org/plantguides/]
Support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation; and special thanks to Carlos Heinisch and Renata Izidoro Lima.
© L.S. Leoni [leoni@carangola.br], and The Field Museum, Chicago, IL 60605 USA [RRC@fmnh.org] Rapid Color Guide #167 version 1.0
41 Pico de Cristal – 2798m 42 Anthurium leonii 43 Oxypetalum leonii 44 Trixis verbascifolia 45 Vriesia billbergioides
Caparaó National Park ARACEAE ASCLEPIADACEAE ASTERACEAE BROMELIACEAE
46 Drosera montana 47 Gaultheria caparoensis 48 Gaylussacia caparoensis 49 Paepalanthus caparoensis 50 Camptosema bellum
DROSERACEAE ERICACEAE ERICACEAE ERIOCAULACEAE FABACEAE
51 Collaea speciosa 52 Sinningia douglasii 53 Vanhouttea leonii 54 Hesperozygis myrtoides cf. 55 Epidendrum zappii
FABACEAE GESNERIACEAE GESNERIACEAE LAMIACEAE ORCHIDACEAE
56 Agalinus bandeirensis 57 Esterhazia splendida cf. 58 Nothochilus coccineus 59 Otacanthus caparoensis 60 Barbacenia irwiniana
SCROPHULARIACEAE SCROPHULARIACEAE SCROPHULARIACEAE SCROPHULARIACEAE VELLOZIACEAE

4. SERRA do BRIGADEIRO State Park, East Minas Gerais, BRASIL
4 FLOWERING PLANTS of the Atlantic Mountain Complex
Lúcio de Souza Leoni - Herbário-GFJP-FAFILE/UEMG, Carangola, MG. WEB VERSION
Photos by: L. C. Medeiros & L. S. Leoni. Produced by: R. B. Foster & S. Kaplan, Environmental & Conservation Programs, The Field Museum, [http://www.fmnh.org/plantguides/]
Support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation; and special thanks to Carlos Heinisch and Renata Izidoro Lima.
© L.S. Leoni [leoni@carangola.br], and The Field Museum, Chicago, IL 60605 USA [RRC@fmnh.org] Rapid Color Guide #167 version 1.0
61 High Campo 62 Mutisia coccinea 63 Billbergia euphemiae 64 Pitcairnia carinata 65 Vriesea ruschi ssp. leonii
Serra do Brigadeiro ASTERACEAE BROMELIACEAE BROMELIACEAE BROMELIACEAE
66 Clusia mexiensis 67 Dichorisandra thyrsiflora cf. 68 Paepalanthus planifolius 69 Nematanthus lanceolatus 70 Sinningia gigantifolia
CLUSIACEAE COMMELINACEAE ERIOCAULACEAE GESNERIACEAE GESNERIACEAE
71 Alstroemeria fuscovinosa 72 Abutilon rufinerve 73 Lavoisiera pectinata 74 Meriania claussenii 75 Tibouchina ademarii
LILIACEAE MALVACEAE MELASTOMATACEAE MELASTOMATACEAE MELASTOMATACEAE
76 Epidendrum xanthinum 77 Laelia jongheana 78 Passiflora edulis 79 Passiflora sidaefolia 80 Passiflora speciosa
ORCHIDACEAE ORCHIDACEAE PASSIFLORACEAE PASSIFLORACEAE PASSIFLORACEAE