| Name | Carex tenax Chapman ex Dewey |
| Authorship | Chapman ex Dewey |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Carex Linnaeus |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:302569-1 |
| Citation | 1855 Amer. J. Sci. Arts ser. 2, 19: 254 |
| Holdings | 7 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Carex tenax Chapman ex Dewey |
| Identification made in | [no date] (5), 1985 (2) |