The Scrubland (Cerrado) is the world's richest savannah in biodiversity, with 12 thousand species identified, scattered across 37 environments, forming a vegetation complex with multiple landscapes, which occupies approximately 36% of the Brazilian territory, considering their transitional areas.
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The field bean, tapir broad bean, macaw broad bean, false barbatimão, faveira represent some of the several names by which the species is known in the states of Goiás, Minas Gerais, Bahia, Piauí, Tocantins and Maranhão. It is a deciduous plant, pioneer of full adaptation to poor soils, occurs grouped due its spread mainly for birds (toucans and macaws) and mammals (tapir, bovine). The flowering occurs in the period from January to July and the fructification from April to August.
Fruits: Medicinal use, and the beans a unique source of flavonoids (rutin, quercetin and rhamnose) substance used by pharmaceutical industry to produce medicines for circulatory problems (hypotension - lowers blood pressure). The effects produced by these substances can be summarized in antioxidant activity, cardiovascular effects in the oxidation of lipids, inflammatory, anticarcinogenic, radioprotection, and other effects.
Seeds: show potential for exploitation of galactomannan for industrial, technological and in the food industry.