Akrô: diversity of uses of climbing plants by the indigenous people of Kriny village, Kayapó Indigenous Land, southeast paraense
Amazon; Vines; Ethnobotany; Mebengôkrê-Kayapó
Amazonian indigenous peoples use plant species for different purposes, such as medicinal, food, ritualistic and material, among others. Given this, the ethnobotanical investigations have been a primordial approach and recognized by scholars around the world as a strategy for selecting useful plants. This work aims to investigate and record traditional knowledge about the uses, preparation techniques and management of climbing plants (akrôs) in the Kriny village, in the Kayapó Indigenous Land, located in the Municipality of Bannach, in the mesoregion of Southeastern Pará. Obtaining information about the collaborators and ethnobotanical aspects associated with climbing plants was carried out in a first fieldwork in July 2023, through semi-structured interviews applied to two indigenous collaborators in the project within which the present study is inserted. In addition, a guided tour was made, which allowed the collection of samples of plant specimens mentioned in the interviews. The ethnobotanical data will be tabulated in a Microsoft Excel ® 2010 spreadsheet, through which the concepts raised will be organized and percentage values, graphs and tables will be obtained. Quantitative data will be analyzed using descriptive statistics, associated with representation in graphs and flowcharts. So far, 69 ethnospecies have been catalogued, of which 15 have already been identified at the family level and 13 at the species level. Akrôs undergo different degrees of management, and can be spontaneous, cultivated and, simultaneously, spontaneous and cultivated. To date, the most cited category of use has been medicinal (53 species); the most used plant parts were leaves (22%), followed by underground structures (19%), stem (12%), bark (10%), fruit (6%), whole plant (5%), sap/exudates (4%) and seed (3%). The collected and identified botanical material will be incorporated into the Herbarium João Murça Pires (MG) of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi.