3. Eudema incurva Al-Shehbaz, J. Arnold Arbor. 71: 101. 1990. TYPE: Peru, Depto. Ancash, Prov. Huaraz, Punta Callán and abova, summit area of the Huaraz-Casma road, 30 km from Huaraz, 1-3 km N of road, heavily grazed puna with rock outcrops, 77°37¢W, 9°32¢S, 4200-4400 m, 7 Apr 1988, U. Molau & B. Eriksen 3512 (holotype, GB!).

     Plants with a slender, simple or few branched caudex covered with petiolar remains of previous years. Leaves basal, rosulate, petiolate; petioles persistent, not ciliate, flattened at base, 2-7 mm; leaf blade linear to linear-lanceolate, 5-15 mm, 0.6-1.4 mm wide, ciliate with simple straight trichomes to 2 mm. Sepals oblong, ca. 2.5 mm, pubescent; petals not seen; filaments ca. 2 mm; anthers oblong, ca. 0.8 mm. Fruiting pedicels glabrous, 4-10 mm. Fruit oblong, strongly incurved, 4-8 mm, 2.5-3.5 mm wide, strongly angustiseptate, rounded at base and apex; valves thick, glabrous; septum complete, hyaline; style 0.4-0.7 mm. Seeds 30-60 per fruit, dark brown, broadly ovoid, plump, 0.7-0.8 mm, 0.5-0.6 mm wide, conspicuously reticulate, biseriate; funicles 0.2-0.5 mm.

Flowering: Apr.

Habitat: puna.

Elevation: 4200-4400 m.

Distribution: Peru.

Note: known only from the type collection.