''Guacamaya'' is a group of plants in the family
Rapateaceae
The Rapateaceae are a family of flowering plants. The botanical name has been recognized by most taxonomists.
The APG II system of 2003 also recognizes this family, and assigns it to the order Poales in the clade commelinids, in the monocots. T ...
described as a genus in 1931.
[Maguire, Bassett 1935. Memoirs of The New York Botanical Garden 10(1): 35-36]
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The only known species is ''Guacamaya superba'', native to the Río Guainía region along the border of Colombia ( Vaupés and Guainía) and Venezuela ( Amazonas).[Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.]
References
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Rapateaceae
Flora of Venezuela
Flora of Colombia