| Name | Carex rara Boott |
| Authorship | Boott |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Carex Linnaeus |
| Contains | Carex rara var. biwensis (Franchet) Kükenthal ex Matsumura Carex rara var. capillacea (Boott) Kükenthal |
| Remarks | Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. (1846) 139 |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:301870-1 |
| Citation | 1846 Trans. Linn. Soc. London 20: 139 |
| Holdings | 6 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Carex rara Boott |
| Identification made in | [no date] (4), 2009 (1), 2015 (1) |