Carex gracilenta Boott ex Boeckeler (E. Himalaya to China (W. & SW. Sichuan, NW. Yunnan): China South-Central, East Himalaya as per POWO)  
Carex species- Ailawng, Mizoram
Carex species- Ailawng, Mizoram
Carex species- Chandragiri, Kathmandu, Nepal
Carex species- Chandragiri, Kathmandu, Nepal Carex species?- Ganderbal, Kashmir Carex species- Chandragiri, Kathmandu, Nepal .
Stewart enlisted the help of various Carex specialists to name the sedges of Pakistan & Kashmir incl. in the summer of 1964 Miss Sheila Hooper who went over the rich material at Kew with him and made the following key for the Carex gilesii-Carex griffithii-Carex mivalis complex: 1. Terminal spike usually entirely male; utricle distinctly but shortly beaked … C.gilesii
Terminal spike female below, male above; beak from almost nil to distinct …..2
2. Glumes and utricles black ……..3
Glumes and utricles cinnamon brown …… C.oliverii (C.nivalis forma cinnamomea)
3 Glumes and utricles golden …… C.luteo-brunnea
Glumes and utricles not golden ….. 4
4 Glumes with a conspicuous green arista which exceeds the utricle ….. C.nivalis forma griffithii
Glumes with a short mucro; beak of utricle short ……. C.nivalis var. nivalis
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