This research was conducted in a fragment of Caatinga with around 50 ha in São Pedro farm, located at Porto da Folha City, Sergipe, order to know the floristic composition and phytossociological structure of herbaceous and shrub-tree components, verify the relationships physiognomic of the shrub-tree with other Caatinga areas, as well as the existence of edge effect in the fragment studied, with the intention of generate subsidies to studies of ecology, conservation and recovery of degraded areas in the region. Thus, it was tested the following null hypotheses: 1st - there is no difference in the structure and richness of shrub-tree of fragment studied in comparison with other areas of Caatinga analyzed in Sergipe and in the Northeast; 2nd ...