Carex ownbeyi G.A.Wheeler, Darwiniana

Jiménez-Mejías, Pedro, Alegría-Olivera, J. José, Beltrán, Hamilton W., Cano, Asunción, Granda-Paucar, Arturo, Maldonado Fonkén, Mónica S., Riva-Regalado, Sebastián, Ruthsatz, Barbara & Escudero, Marcial, 2020, Chorological and nomenclatural notes on Peruvian Carex (Cyperaceae), Caldasia 42 (1), pp. 63-69 : 66

Carex ownbeyi G.A.Wheeler, Darwiniana 40: 200. 2002.

Holotype: BOLIVIA, Cochabamba, Quillacollo Prov. , “camino Sipe Sipe-Lipichi”, 3800 m, 9 Apr 1990, I. Hensen 731 ( MIN; isotype: LPB barcode 0000242 digital image!).

Iconography: Wheeler (2002a: 202, fig. 2C-D).

Material studied. PERU. Ayacucho: Cangallo, Dist. Los Morocuchos, a 8.6 km al SO de Condorcocha , 3380 m, C . Tejada 287 ( HSP) . Junín: Yauli, La Oroya, Paccha, 4207 m, 7 May 2011, H . Beltrán 7160 ( USM) .

Notes: Until recently, C. ownbeyi was known only from its type locality / the locus classicus in Bolivia ( Wheeler 2002a). The additional records from northern Argentina ( Jiménez-Mejías et al. 2016a), Colombia (Jiménez-Mejías et al. 2018), and now Peru confirm that this species is much more widespread through the Andes than previously believed and much under-collected.