Additions to the Pantepui pollen flora (Venezuelan Guayana): the Maguire Collection
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https://doi.org/10.3989/collectbot.2010.v29.004Keywords:
Guayana, Pollen morphology, Taxonomy, Tepuis, VenezuelaAbstract
This work is a pollen-morphological study of various plant species from Pantepui (Venezuelan Guayana), a region with high biodiversity and endemism, where global warming is expected to have a high impact. The study consists of a series of morphological descriptions of selected taxa from the Maguire pollen reference slide collection of The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG). The collection was initiated under the supervision of Senior Curator Bassett Maguire to advance systematic, palynological, and medical studies; today it has become also useful for other disciplines such as paleoecology, paleoclimatology or forensic studies. The aim of this pollen-morphological study is to enhance the database of pollen descriptions and illustrations for identification purposes, to be used in the ongoing paleoecological reconstructions and, eventually, in other types of studies using pollen, particularly from the Guayanan tepui summits.
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