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ferns, lycophytes, monocotyledons, streams, Tapajós National Forest.
We conducted an inventory of the fern, lycophyte and non-palm monocotyledon ground-herbs of terra firme riparian forests in the lower Tapajós River basin of the Brazilian Amazon. Eight 1.5 x 250 m plots, totaling 0.3 hectares, were surveyed along the watersheds of the Cupari and Curuá-Una tributaries of the Tapajós River, Floresta Nacional do Tapajós, Para, Brazil. To characterize the ground-herb community, we calculated species richness, abundance and Fisher’s alpha for each plot. To analyze floristic dissimilarity, we calculated the Bray-Curtis distance. In total, we sampled 3,130 individuals, 58 species, 27 genera and 20 families of riparian ground- herbs. Marantaceae (14 spp) was the richest family and Poaceae the most abundant family (738 individuals). The fern Triplophyllum glabrum (Tectariaceae) was the most frequent species, observed in 87.5 % of plots. Plots that showed the highest values for richness and species diversity were located in the Cupari River basin. The ground-herb community composition observed in the riparian zone here resembles that of other non-riparian forested sites in the Amazon with the plant families Marantaceae, Pteridaceae and Poaceae generally being the most commonly represented in the Amazonian ground-herb stratum.