“…It also meets values that usually stand out in surveys conducted in extra-Brazilian Neotropics (Küper, Kreft, Nieder, Köster, & Barthlott, 2004;Woods, Cardelús, & DeWalt, 2015). Orchidaceae, Bromeliaceae and Cactaceae (78% of the total of species) are among the richest families recorded in Brazilian Semideciduous Forests (Rogalski & Zanin, 2003;Cervi & Borgo, 2007;Dettke et al, 2008;Bataghin et al, 2010), as well as in other ecosystems in the Atlantic Domain (Buzatto, Severo, & Waechter, 2008;Kersten & Kuniyoshi, 2009;Leitman, Amorim, Menini Neto, & Forzza, 2014;Padilha et al, 2015). They also appear as the richest families in summaries on the taxonomic composition of vascular epiphytes in the world (Gentry & Dodson, 1987a;Benzing, 1990;Zotz, 2013) and in the Atlantic Domain (Freitas et al, 2016).…”