A família Asteraceae na Reserva Ecológica do Panga, Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brasil

A systematic treatment of the Asteraceae species is presented here. The ecological reserve, located 30 km S of the city of Uberlândia, has a mosaic of phytophysiognomies of the "Cerrado" domain. The specimens are from collections made since 1986 and are deposited at Herbarium Uberlandense (HUFU) of the Universidade Federal de Uberlandia, Minas Gerais. A total of 98 species distributed in 46 genera was recorded. The genera with the highest number of species are Vernonia (20 spp.), Chromolaena (10 spp.) and Baccharis (8 spp.). Identification key, followed by morphological descriptions of each species, information on distribution and comments on morphological similarities are presented.