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1995

Claremont Colleges

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

Colombia

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Four New Species Of Uncinia (Cyperaceae) From Northern South America, Gerald A. Wheeler, Paul Goetchebeur Jan 1995

Four New Species Of Uncinia (Cyperaceae) From Northern South America, Gerald A. Wheeler, Paul Goetchebeur

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

Four new species of Uncinia (Cyperaceae) are described from northern South America. Three of them, U. lacustris, U. paludosa, and U. tenuifolia, belong in sect. Platyandrae; the fourth, U. subsacculata, belongs in sect. Uncinia. Three of the new species are known only from Ecuador, whereas U. paludosa has also been collected in Colombia.