The Tinguá Biological Reserve is located within the boundaries of the municipalitiesof Nova Iguaçu, Duque de Caxias, Miguel Pereira, and Petrópolis, in the central-western region of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. Its vegetation is mainly formed by forests belonging to the Atlantic Rain Forest Complex. Although located close to urban areas, the Tinguá Reserve has suffered little deforestation which is assured by its species richness. As one of the several projects for the Reserve, developed by the Botany Department of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, an identification key of the woody Dicotyledons is presented, using morphological vegetative characters such as phyllotaxy, leaf shape, stipules, exsudates, lenticells, indument, and glands. A total of 109 species can be identified, belonging to 35 families.
Atlantic rain forest; identification key; floristics
