Biology:Maguireocharis

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Maguireocharis
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Genus: Maguireocharis
Steyerm.

Maguireocharis is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rubiaceae.[1] It only contains one known species, Maguireocharis neblinae Steyerm. [2]

It is native to southern Venezuela and northern Brazil.[2]

The genus name of Maguireocharis is in honour of Bassett Maguire (1904–1991), an American botanist, head curator of the New York Botanical Garden, and a leader of scientific expeditions to the Guyana Highlands in Brazil and Venezuela.[3] The Latin specific epithet of neblinae refers to Sierra de la Neblina a sandstone Massif in Venezuela. In 1954,Bassett Maguire discovered the botanically rich Cerro de la Neblina (or "Mountain of the Clouds").[4]

Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Mem. New York Bot. Gard. Vol.23 on page 230 in 1972.[2]

References

  1. "Maguireocharis Steyerm. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:296784-2. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Maguireocharis neblinae Steyerm. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:149346-2. 
  3. Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, Volume II, D–L. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-2676-9. 
  4. Maguire, B. (January 1955). Cerro de la Neblina, Amazonas, Venezuela: a newly discovered sandstone mountain. Geographical Review 45/1: 27–51. JSTOR 211728

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