Abstract:
The location and identification of herbaceous plants wild for the investigation of the potential for uses
and the subsequent design and layout for a bank germplasm was conducted at the systems level agroforestry in
the parishes of Guasaganda, Pucayacu and Carmen, that structure the rural area of the canton Maná (Province of
Cotopaxi) with an altitude between 240 to 686.
We used a preferential rate sampling, for which is implemented a total of six transects of vegetation
10 x 100 m (1,000 m 2 each), so that demarcated a total of two transects in each of the areas selected
surrounding parishes.
A total of 56 species with some use known, at a total of 48 genera and 27 families ; A
phytosociological level, species with higher values of importance were Impatiens balsamina (Family
Balsaminaceae), Eryngium foetidum (Apiaceae Family) and Sida acuta (Malvaceae family).
To make the design of in situ gene bank was used the following methodology: actual use species in relation to
biological forms Raunkaier.
The area looked gene bank use 3, 267.00 m2.
