Distribucion y Habitat

Hallado en Bolivia, sur de Chile, en la Argentina en Jujuy, Salta, Catamarca, La Rioja, Tucumán, Córdoba, la Patagonia. Distribution: Southern Andes, from Mendoza Province in Argentina, north to northern Argentina, disjunct in Sierra de Achala (Córdoba Province) and local in northern Chile (although see comments under C. ecuadorica), doubtful in Bolivia [83 BOL? 85 AGE AGW CLN].

Sinónimos

Carex bonplandii auct. non Kunth : . Carex curvifolia Boeck. Beitr. Cyper. 1: 41. 1888 Carex hypoleucos auct. non E. Desv. : .

Bibliografía

Wheeler, G. A., Guaglianone, E. R. & Muñoz-Schick, M. Año: Inéd Wheeler, G. A. Año: 2006 Jiménez-Mejías, P., Martín-Bravo, S., Márquez-Corro, J. I., Donadío, S., Roalson, E. H. & Naczi, R. F. C. Año: 2021 Barros, M. Año: 1947 Barros, M. Año: 1969

Ejemplares de referencia

Colector	N° Colect.	Especie	Departamento	Provincia	Imagen
Barboza, G. E.	2650		Famatina	La Rioja
Barboza, G. E.	3201		Famatina	La Rioja
Beck, S. G.	14045		Los Andes	La Paz
Bianco, C. A.	2819		Calamuchita	Córdoba
Bianco, C. A.	4292	RIOC	Río Cuarto	Córdoba
Burkart, A.	10234		San Alberto	Córdoba
Burkart, A.	30411		Tilcara	Jujuy
Cabrera, A. L.	9323		Cochinoca	Jujuy
Charpin, A.	20661		Humahuaca	Jujuy
Charpin, A.	20661	AC	Humahuaca	Jujuy
Claren, F.	11408		Santa Catalina	Jujuy
Herter, W. G. F.	1666			-
Hieronymus, G. H. E. W.	600			La Rioja
Hieronymus, G. H. E. W.	600			La Rioja
Hosseus, C. C.	89	CORD 65922		Córdoba
Jiménez, A. M.	3			-
Jörgensen, P.	1658		Andalgalá	Catamarca
Kunkel, G. W. H.	540			-
Kurtz, F.	7635		Malargüe	Mendoza
Kurtz, F.	7635		Malargüe	Mendoza
Kurtz, F.	10883		Coronel Felipe Varela	La Rioja
Kurtz, F.	11408		Santa Catalina	Jujuy
Kurtz, F.	13917		Coronel Felipe Varela	La Rioja
Kurtz, F.	13930		Coronel Felipe Varela	La Rioja
Lorentz, P. G.	660		Famatina	La Rioja
Múlgura, M. E.	1332		Humahuaca	Jujuy
Nicora, E. G.	8964		Los Andes	Salta
Pedersen, T. M.	14375		Aisén	Aisén
Ruiz Leal, A.	12211		Santa María	Catamarca
Ruthsatz, B.	8430		Iquique	Tarapacá
Schreiter, R.	10984		Yavi	Jujuy
Spegazzini, C. L.	12725			-
Stuckert, T. J. V.	21177			-
Taylor, C. M.	11331		Cochinoca	Jujuy
Villamil, C. B.	9174		Zapala	Neuquén
Villamil, C. B.	9210		Zapala	Neuquén
Villamil, C. B.	10820		Zapala	Neuquén
Villamil, C. B.	11275		Zapala	Neuquén
Villamil, C. B.	11296		Zapala	Neuquén
Villamil, C. B.	11533		Zapala	Neuquén

Nombre Vulgar y Usos

Tipo y Observaciones

Material Tipo: Lectotype (designated by Wheeler, 2006): ARGENTINA: La Rioja, Sierra Famatina, en las cercanías de la quebrada, 2 a 4 leguas arriba del Vallecito, 21 Jan 1878, Hieronymus & Niederlein 600 (S-07-12262 digital image!; isolectotype: SI digital image!, photograph at F!). [G. A. Wheeler, Hickenia 3: 259–266. 2006].
Observaciones: Iconography: Figures 2S, 3S. See additional figures in Barros (1947: tab. 173) and Wheeler (2009: 332, fig. 298). Etymology: From the Greek makros, long, large, and rhiza, root, ‘large rooted’, referring to the thick elongated rhizomes of this species. Notes: Kükenthal (1909) presumably studied at B the original material of the names C. macrorrhiza and C. curvifolia (now destroyed), synonymizing the latter to the former. We follow Kükenthal (1909) and Wheeler (2006) and keep C. curvifolia as synonym of C. macrorrhiza. The plant pictured in Barros (1935: 196) does not match the characters of C. macrorrhiza regarding the utricle, although the plant that is represented for the whole habit strongly resembles the species. The plate might represent a large specimen of C. ecuadorica or a mix of different taxa.The records from Uruguay (Zuloaga et al., 2020; Govaerts et al., 2020+) seem to be at least partly based on specimens of C. divisa (e.g. URUGUAY: Soriano, Herter 94293, US-02141036!). Wheeler considered such records doubtful (Wheeler, 2006). The presence of C.macrorrhiza, an Andean species, in Uruguay also seems improbable to us, so we do not include the country under the distribution of the species. All the studied records from Bolivia are here identified as C. ecuadorica, thus the presence of specimens morphologically assignable to C. macrorrhiza in Bolivia needs confirmation.