Post-fire flowering is a fire-adaptive trait that is underused in fire ecology literature to describe plant responses to fire. Most of the species described so far as having this strategy occur in mediterranean vegetation, while less is known about this event in tropical savannas. European naturalists described this fire-related response in the Cerrado when visiting Brazil and the first experiments to show the stimulation of flowering by fire were carried out by L. Coutinho, a pioneer in fire and savanna ecology in Brazil. The present study reviewed the literature on the Cerrado and compiled a database with 402 species that had any flowering response related to fire. As a result, we classified species based on flowering responses to fire (fire-dependent, fire-stimulated, fire-independent and fire-sensitive). About 85% of all the species included in the database are known to flower after fire, most of which are eudicots of the families the Asteraceae and Fabaceae, and ca. 45% are forbs. According to the classification, 267 of the species are fire-stimulated, 73 are fire-dependent, while only 11 of all the species are fire-sensitive. We encourage the use of post-fire flowering response in the future to analyze plant community responses to fire and help address knowledge gaps about how fire affects plant community assembly in tropical savannas.

火后开花是一种火适应性状，在火生态学文献中不足以描述植物对火的反应。到目前为止，描述的大多数具有这种策略的物种都发生在地中海植被中，而在热带稀树草原上对该事件知之甚少。欧洲自然学家在访问巴西时就在塞拉多描述了这种与火有关的反应，而巴西火与稀树草原生态学的先驱L. Coutinho则进行了第一个实验，以证明用火刺激开花。本研究回顾了塞拉多（Cerrado）上的文献，并建立了一个数据库，该数据库包含402种与火有关的开花反应的物种。结果，我们根据开花对火的反应（依赖火，刺激火，不依赖火和对火敏感）对物种进行了分类。已知数据库中包括的所有物种中约有85％着火后开花，其中大多数是菊科和科的近缘杜鹃花，以及 45％是前叉。根据分类，火种有267种，火类有73种，而所有种中只有11种对火敏感。我们鼓励将来使用火后开花响应来分析植物群落对火的响应，并帮助解决有关火如何影响热带稀树草原的知识缺口。