Carex amicta Boott, Ill. Gen.

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 : 64

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.15446/caldasia.v42n1.76771
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15313048
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scientific name	Carex amicta Boott, Ill. Gen.
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Carex amicta Boott, Ill. Gen. View in CoL Carex 4: 131. 1867.

Lectotype (here designated): Paramo de Cuchero [Páramo de Cachirí], N. Granada 1845, W. Purdie s.n. (Herbarium Hookerianum) ( K barcode 000584609 digital image!; isolectotype: K barcode 000584608 digital image!).

Iconography: Boott (1867: tab. 421)

Material studied. PERU. Cajamarca: Celendín, Laguna Azul , 3706 m, 6 Apr 1994, G. Vilcapoma & J. J. Alegría 7380 (MOL-15907) .

Notes: Carex amicta is an Andean endemic species previously known from Venezuela to Ecuador. Here we cite it for the first time for the department of Cajamarca in Peru, which becomes the southernmost limit of the species range. The dwarf Carex amicta , a species that dwell in páramos, is an atypical member of the formerly recognized subgenus Vigneastra (now known to be nested within subgenus Carex ; Global Carex Group (2016) and references therein), mainly constituted by large species from tropical humid forests with open panicle-like inflorescences and fertile cladoprophylls.

We conclude that the type locality of this species, Páramo de Cuchero , belongs to some place in Colombia following Ewan (1948) whom describes the travel itinerary of Purdie between 1845 and 1846 indicating that he visited the northern part of the country with no reference to Venezuela or Ecuador or any other place south to Bogotá. This locality is listed as Colombia, Santander by the Missouri Botanical Garden database (Magill et al. c2019) without any further information and does not appear in the official colombian gazeteer ( IGAC 1996 ).