Maguireocharis

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Lamiids
Ordo: Gentianales

Familia: Rubiaceae
Subfamilia: Cinchonoideae
Tribe: Cinchoneae
Genus: Maguireocharis
Species: M. neblinae
Name

Maguireocharis Steyerm., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 23: 230. (1972)

monotypic taxon

References

Steyermark, J.A. 1972. Memoirs of The New York Botanical Garden 23: 230.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Maguireocharis in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Mar. 1. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Maguireocharis. Published online. Accessed: Mar. 1 2019.
Tropicos.org 2019. Maguireocharis. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 1 Mar. 2019.

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

"Maguireocharis Steyerm. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
"Maguireocharis neblinae Steyerm. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, Volume II, D–L. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-2676-9.
Maguire, B. (January 1955). Cerro de la Neblina, Amazonas, Venezuela: a newly discovered sandstone mountain. Geographical Review 45/1: 27–51. JSTOR 211728