Distribucion y Habitat

Regiones andinas de Perú, la Argentina (Córdoba y la Patagonia) y Chile. Distribution: Apparently endemic from northern Chilean Patagonia north to central Chile. Previous reports from Argentina seem to correspond to confusion with C. firmicaulis (Wheeler, 1996) or C. hypoleucos [85 CLS CLC].

Sinónimos

Carex propinqua auct. non Nees & Meyen : . Carex pycnostachya auct. non Kar. & Kir. : . Carex pycnostachya Desv. in C.Gay, Fl. Chil. 6: 204 (1854), nom. illeg., non Carex pycnostachya Kar. & Kir. (1842).

Bibliografía

Ejemplares de referencia

Colector	N° Colect.	Especie	Departamento	Provincia	Imagen
Burkart, A.	9720		Picunches	Neuquén
Finot, V. L.	1900		Talca	Maule
Parodi, L. R.	2131			Neuquén
Spegazzini, C. L.	-1	131		-
Zuloaga, F. O.	12564		Minas	Neuquén
Zuloaga, F. O.	12564		Minas	Neuquén

Nombre Vulgar y Usos

Tipo y Observaciones

Material Tipo: Lectotype (here designated): CHILE: Valle de las Nieblas, Jan 1877, Philippi 502 (SGO-000000867 digital image!; isolectotype: SGO-000000866 digital image!). [P. Jiménez-Mejías et al., Bot. J. Linn. Soc. XX: 25. 2021].
Observaciones: Iconography: Figures 2O, 3O. Etymology: From the Latin nebula, mist, fog, in reference to the locus classicus, ‘Valle de las Nieblas’, that translates to English as ‘Valley of the Mists’. Notes: A rarely collected and poorly understood species. Its name has been widely misused to refer to C. firmicaulis on the Argentinean side of the Andes (Wheeler, 1996b). The taxon in its most strict sense is probably a Chilean endemic. Cited from southern Chile (CLS, Aisén Province) by Rodríguez et al. (2018). Given the problematic taxonomy of the group, it would be desirable to confirm the presence of C. nebularum in that region. Selected additional references: Wheeler [(1996b) key].