Análise da identificação botânica em inventários florestais de planos de manejo sustentáveis no oeste paraense.

The forest inventory is an important tool for the planning sustainable forest management, assisting in the decision-making in relation to forest, such as timber and non-timber products. One of the most important information of a forest inventory is the botanical or taxonomic identification, which is usually performed by parabotanists/parataxonomists. These professionals normally do not have scientific methodologies that guarantee the correct taxonomic identification of the species, using morphological characteristics and vernacular names, which are sometimes quite volatile according to the region. The objective of this paper is to analyze the botanical and taxonomic identification of forest inventories of an enterprise that requested licensing for the Sustainable Forest Management Plan (SFMP), on western Pará state, Brazil, with a special focus on the least representative botanical families (01 or 02 species). As a result, a variety of problems and errors related to the scientific and vernacular names presented in the projects were verified, among the main ones: lack of the author, orthographic error of the genre and specific epithet, author orthographic error, outdated nomenclature and use of synonyms and/or names not accepted. As well as species that do not occur in the northern region, and others that do not even exist in Brazil and taxa that are not trees, but were included in the inventory. We suggest a greater stringent in the analysis of this data by the licensing agencies and mainly a greater commitment of the consulting companies with the collection and taxonomic identification of the species. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]