13 a. Drymaria divaricata Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 6 [folio]: 20; [quarto]: 24. 1823. var. divaricata

= Drymaria peruviana Muschl., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 45: 451. 1911. Type: Peru. “ la Oroya, in departimento Junin, in formatione plantis pulvinaribus et caespitosis composita, 4300 m s. m., ” February 1903, Weberbauer 2601 (syntype B, destroyed) ; Departimento Junin, in montibus prope Tarma in formatione aperta plantis herbaceis (praesertim graminibus) et fruticibus composita, 3600–3700 m s. m., ” 10 February 1903, Weberbauer 2411 (syntype B, destroyed) ; “ Departimento Junin, La Oroya, in sabulosis, 3900 m s. m., ” February 1903, Weberbauer 2589 (syntype B, destroyed) ; Pocarà, statio viae ferreae, in saxosis, 3700 m s. m., ” 24–25 February 1902, Weberbauer 400 (syntype B, destroyed) .

Type.

Peru. Lima: crescit ad litora Oceani Pacifici, [1802], A. von Humboldt & A. J. A. Bonpland s. n. (holotype: P [P 00679596!]) .

Distribution.

Peru, Bolivia.

Notes.

Most of the type specimen deposited at B were destroyed in World War II (Hiepko 1987). The four collections cited in the protologue of Drymaria peruviana were apparently destroyed, because they are no longer at B. We have not been able to locate any duplicates.