Carex punicola D.B.Poind., Jim. Mejias & M.Escudero, Phytotaxa 291(4): 292 (2017)

Jimenez-Mejias, Pedro, Morales-Alonso, Ana, Oleas, Nora H, Sanchez, Enmily, Martin-Bravo, Santiago, Masa-Iranzo, Irene & S. Meseguer, Andrea, 2023, New relevant chorological and conservation data on Carex (Cyperaceae) and Hypericum (Hypericaceae) from Ecuador, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 99603-99603 : 99603

Carex punicola D.B.Poind., Jim. Mejias & M.Escudero, Phytotaxa 291(4): 292 (2017)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: QCA 36443 , QCNE 140268 ; recordNumber: 55330; recordedBy: S. Lægaard; occurrenceID: QCA 36443 , QCNE 140268; Taxon: scientificName: Carex punicola D.B.Poind; Location : country: Ecuador; stateProvince: Bolívar; locality: Salinas-Los Arenales ; verbatimLocality: Km 6 on road Salinas-Los Arenales ; verbatimElevation: 4000 m; locationRemarks: Bolivar. Km 6 on road Salinas-Los Arenales , 01°22'S 79°00'W, 4000 m, grass-páramo and open rocks; georeferenceProtocol: label; Event : eventDate: Oct-02-1985; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: QCA 36467 ; recordNumber: 71002; recordedBy: S. Lægaard; occurrenceID: QCA 36467 ; Taxon: scientificName: Carex punicola D.B.Poind; Location : country: Ecuador; stateProvince: Chimborazo; verbatimLocality: Páramo above Azul along road to Osogochi ; verbatimElevation: 4000-4200 m; locationRemarks: Chimborazo. Páramo above Azul along road to Osogochi , 02°18'S 78°42'W, 4000-4200 m, grass-páramo; georeferenceProtocol: label; Event : eventDate: 26 Apr 1988; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: QCA 36404 , QCNE 137371 ; recordNumber: 19590; recordedBy: S. Lægaard; occurrenceID: QCA 36404 , QCNE 137371; Taxon: scientificName: Carex punicola D.B.Poind; Location : country: Ecuador; stateProvince: Chimborazo; verbatimLocality: 7 km along páramo road from new road Ambato-Guaranda towards Carihuairazo ; verbatimElevation: 4000-4200 m; locationRemarks: Chimborazo. 7 km along páramo road from new road Ambato-Guaranda towards Carihuairazo , 01°24'S 78°48'W, 4000-4200 m, dry gravelly soil; georeferenceProtocol: label; Event : eventDate: Feb-15-1999; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 82ECU-AMA22 (HUTI, UPOS) ; recordNumber: 82; recordedBy: A. Morales Alonso, P. Jiménez Mejías, & I. Masa Iranzo; occurrenceID: 82ECU-AMA22 (HUTI, UPOS); Taxon: scientificName: Carex punicola D.B.Poind; Location : country: Ecuador; stateProvince: Pichincha; locality: National Park Cotopaxi ; verbatimLocality: Carretera Parque Nacional Cotopaxi, cerca refugio Tombopaxi , entrada Norte ; verbatimElevation: 3691 m; locationRemarks: Pichincha. Carretera Parque Nacional Cotopaxi, cerca refugio Tombopaxi , entrada Norte 00°34.0919'S 078°26.6518'W, 3691 m, páramo, pastizal seco; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: P. Jiménez-Mejías; dateIdentified: 2022; Event: eventDate: 3 Aug 2022; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Taxon discussion

Carex punicola was so far known as a Central Andean element, reported from Peru, Bolivia and Argentina ( Wheeler 1988, Poindexter et al. 2017). This species is the only Southern Hemisphere taxon from section Carex Acrocystis Dumort., a mostly Holarctic group greatly diversified in North America. Carex punicola is a diminutive acaulescent sedge from dry soils (Fig. 1 D,d). Interestingly, there is an unusually high number of acaulescent Carex species in South America, which suggests a possible evolutionary trend ( Jiménez-Mejías et al. 2021a).

Here, we present the first records for Ecuador, which constitutes the new northernmost limit for the species.

Figures

Figure 1. Representative photos of Carex species (capital letters) mentioned in this work and their habitats (small letters). Carex ecuadorensis: (A, a), Imbabura, Parque Nacional de Cotacachi, type locality. Carex madida: (B, b), Pichincha, Parque Nacional Cayambe-Coca, type locality; (C, c), Carchi, Reserva Ecologica El Angel. Carex punicola: (D, d), Pichincha, Parque Nacional Cotopaxi. Carex sodiroi: (E, e), Pichincha, Reserva Geobotanica Pululahua. Carex subsacculata: (F 1, F 2, f), Pichincha, Reserva Biologica Yanacocha; the specimen in picture F 1 is still inmature, while the one in picture F 2 is fully ripe.