Descripcion
Rizoma leñoso. Tallo de 10-25 cm de alto, superiormente escabroso. Hojas más cortas que el tallo, de 3-4 mm de ancho. Inflorescencia en cabezuela ovoide, ebracteada, compuesta de varias espiguillas andróginas, de 1,5 cm; glumas ovales, castañas, más claras en la carina. Utrículos plano-convexos de 3 mm, ovales, de base cortamente estipitada, bordes engrosados, subalados, atenuados en rostro largo de bordes ligeramente escabrosos y boca bidentada; estigmas 2.
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 Carex nebularum Phil.
Bibliografía
Ejemplares de referencia
Colector | N° Colect. | Especie | Departamento | Provincia | Imagen |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
9720 | Picunches | Neuquén | ||
|
1900 | Talca | Maule | ||
|
2131 | Neuquén | |||
|
-1 | 131 | - | ||
|
12564 | Minas | Neuquén | ||
|
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].