| Name | Carex cephalophora Muhlenberg |
| Authorship | Muhlenberg |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Carex Linnaeus |
| Contains | Carex cephalophora var. maxima Dewey |
| Citation | 1805 Sp. Pl., ed. 4 [Willd.]. 4(1): 220 |
| Holdings | 418 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Carex cephalophora Muhlenberg |
| Identification made in | [no date] (410), 1961 (1), 1971 (1), 1976 (1), 2001 (1), 2007 (1), 2012 (3) |