Fenologia e germinação de sementes de visgueiro-do-igapó (Parkia discolor Spruce ex Benth)

Abstract

This work had as objective to describe the phenology of visgueiro-of-igapó (P. discolor Spruce ex Benth.), correlating it with the ambient factors, well with describing the morphology of seedlings and young plants, beyond evaluating the efficiency of the application of pregerminative treatments, aiming the overcoming of the dormancy of the seeds. It was evidenced that the species flowered and bore fruit since the beginning of the flood, culminating the period of the production of fruits with the maximum period of the flood, what favors the dispersion of the species, which can be characterized as semideciduous. It was observed that the germination is of the epigeous-phanerocotylar type, presenting from 1 to 3 pairs of leaflets, with 14 to 19 pairs of leaflets. The young plant presents woody base, with 5 eophylls, alternating, with a spherical gland in the insertion of the leaflets and a vegetative egg yolk in the lower insertion of each eophylls. Was confirmed that the seeds present seed coat dormancy and that this can be surpassed with the blunts or sandpaper, of the seeds in the proximal portion and proximal and distal portions at the same time. The pregerminative treatment with humid and dry heat, under different temperatures, for some periods of conditioning, had not been effective for the overcoming of the dormancy of seeds of P. discolor