Carex muricata Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 974. 1753.

"Habitat in Europae nemoribus humentibus." RCN: 7066.

Lectotype (Marshall in J. Bot. 45: 364. 1907): Herb. Linn. No. 1100.26 (LINN) .

Current name: Carex muricata L. ( Cyperaceae).

Note: A number of authors, including Soó (in Feddes Repert. 83: 148. 1972), have treated this as a nomen confusum, and Lambinon (in Taxon 30: 362. 1981) proposed the formal rejection of the name. However, the Committee for Spermatophyta (in Taxon 35: 558. 1986) declined to support the proposal.