''Maguireocharis'' is a

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genus of

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s belonging to the family

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. It only contains one known species, Maguireocharis neblinae Steyerm. It is native to southern Venezuela and northern Brazil. The genus name of ''Maguireocharis'' is in honour of Bassett Maguire (1904–1991), an American botanist, head curator of the

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, and a leader of scientific expeditions to the Guyana Highlands in Brazil and Venezuela. The Latin specific epithet of ''neblinae'' refers to Sierra de la Neblina a sandstone

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in Venezuela. In 1954,Bassett Maguire discovered the botanically rich Cerro de la Neblina (or "Mountain of the Clouds").Maguire, B. (January 1955). Cerro de la Neblina, Amazonas, Venezuela: a newly discovered sandstone mountain. ''Geographical Review'' 45/1: 27–51. Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Mem. New York Bot. Gard. Vol.23 on page 230 in 1972.

References

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