Carex brunnea

{{short description|Species of sedge}}

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|image_caption=At Lord Howe Island

|genus=Carex

|species=brunnea

|authority=Thunb.

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|Carex hattoriana |Tuyama

|Carex gracilis |R.Br.

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Carex brunnea, the greater brown sedge, is a small species of flowering plant found in many parts of Asia, as well as eastern Australia and Lord Howe Island.{{cite web |title=Carex brunnea|work=Efloras- Flora of Pakistan|author=|accessdate= 13 December 2018|url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200026539}} This plant is often seen in disturbed, sunny areas in and near rainforest. This is one of many plants described by Robert Brown and was published in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen (1810). Brown recorded the type "(J.) v.v."{{cite web |title=Cyperaceae Juss. Carex gracillis|work=Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)|author=|accessdate= 14 December 2018|url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/name/apni/111079/api/apni-format}} Brown's name of Carex gracilis was ruled invalid, as the plant had previously appeared in scientific literature in 1784. Published by the Swedish naturalist Carl Peter Thunberg, in Murray's Systema Vegetabilium, 14th edition.{{cite web |title=Author J.A. Murray|work=APNI - Vascular Plants|author=|accessdate= 13 December 2018|url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/author/apni/7036}}