| Name | Carex obscura Nees |
| Authorship | Nees |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Carex Linnaeus |
| Contains | Carex obscura var. brachycarpa C. B. Clarke |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:301275-1 |
| Holdings | 12 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Carex obscura Nees |
| Identification made in | [no date] (7), 1967 (3), 2014 (1), 2015 (1) |