Distribucion y Habitat

From Tierra del Fuego north to Peru. Erroneously cited from Ecuador (see notes) [83 BOL PER 85 AGS AGW CLC CLN CLS].

Sinónimos

Carex incurva Lightf. var. melanocystis (E. Desv.) Kük. var. melanocystis (E. Desv.) Kük. Pflanzenr. 4, Fam. 20 (Heft 38): 114. 1909 Carex misera Phil. Fl. Atacam. : 53. 1860 nom. illeg., non Carex misera Buckley (1843). Carex psammogaea Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 2: 187. 1855 Carex oligantha Phil., hom. illeg. Anales Mus. Nac. Chile, Secc. 2, Bot. 8: 80. 1891 nom. illeg., non Carex oligantha Steud. (1855).

Bibliografía

Muñoz-Schüler , P., García-Moro, P., Márquez-Corro, J. I., Penneckamp Furniel, D., Sanz-Arnal, M., Martín-Bravo, S. & Jiménez-Mejías, P. Año: 2023

Ejemplares de referencia

Colector	N° Colect.	Especie	Departamento	Provincia	Imagen
Acosta, J. M.	1782	b	Iglesia	San Juan
Acosta, J. M.	1782	b	Iglesia	San Juan
Acosta, J. M.	1782	b	Iglesia	San Juan
Acosta, J. M.	1782	b	Iglesia	San Juan
Acosta, J. M.	1782	b	Iglesia	San Juan
Acosta, J. M.	1782	b	Iglesia	San Juan
Acosta, J. M.	1782	b	Iglesia	San Juan
Acosta, J. M.	1782	b	Iglesia	San Juan
Jiménez-Mejías, P.	3		Santiago	Metropolitana

Nombre Vulgar y Usos

Tipo y Observaciones

Material Tipo: Holotype: CHILE: Chili, C. Gay (P-032665 digital image!).
Observaciones: Iconography: Figures 1A, 2A, 3A. Additional figures in Gay (1854: tab. 73, fig. 5), Barros (1935: 179, as Carex incurva and C. incurva var. melanocystis), Barros (1947: tab. 174, as C. incurva, C. incurva var. melanocystis and Carex incurva var. misera), Wheeler (2009: 330, fig. 295, as C. maritima), Jiménez-Mejías et al. (2020, as C. maritima). Etymology: From the Greek melano, black, and kystis, bladder, presumably in reference to the darkened ripe utricles that some populations of this species may develop. Notes: Jørgensen, Nee & Beck (2014) considered C. ruthsatziae G.A.Wheeler to be a synonym of C. maritima. Despite the striking resemblance of the two taxa, they belong to different taxonomic groups, with C. ruthsatziae being a member of section Abditispicae in subgenus Carex, as supported by recent molecular results (Martín-Bravo et al., 2019). The two species can be distinguished by the characters mentioned in the key. See also Jiménez-Mejías et al. (2020) for additional comments on the differences between the two species. The citation of C. maritima from Ecuador (Jørgensen & León-Yánez, 1999) is erroneous. After the study of detailed digital images of the material on which the citation is based (ECUADOR: Chimborazo, Laegaard 52718, QCNE-26066) we concluded that it is C. ecuadorica beyond any doubt.