The north-eastern taxon fringillarius is primarily found in Caatinga and Cerrado.
The 2006 World Food Prize was awarded to former Brazilian Minister of Agriculture Alysson Paolinelli, soil scientist Edson Lobato (also of Brazil), and American soil scientist A. Colin McClung for their leadership in soil science and policy implementation that opened the Cerrado to agricultural and food production.
Danish botanist Eugenius Warming gives the first detailed description of the Brazilian cerrado in his book Lagoa Santa.
The common name campina refers to its specific habitat, a cerrado-like open savanna at the Amazon River in Brazil.
Most species inhabit dense tropical, subtropical and temperate (Chile) forests, but some occur in open vegetation as the Pampas, the Cerrado, and the Caatinga.
Justicia umbrosa (Brazilian plume, Yellow Jacobinia; syn. Adhatoda umbrosa Ness, and Justicia aurea Schltdl.) is an ornamental shrub native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil.
In the Cerrado areas, mostly in the south, central and east, there is a predominance of Southern Brazilian farmers of German, Portuguese and Italian descent.
It is found at elevations from 300 to 2030 m in a variety of habitats, including cerrado, chaco and heath pampas.
Staurogyne hirsuta, a plant species native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil
Tabebuia alba, the ipê-amarelo-da-serra or golden trumpet tree, a tree species native to Cerrado vegetation in Brazil
East of the Tapajós, the range expands into the Cerrado, the upper half of the Xingu River drainage, and the entire drainage system of the Araguaia-Tocantins River, (the eastward system, typically considered part of the 'Amazon Basin').