| Class: | Liliopsida |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Cyperaceae |
| Genus: | Carex |
| Editor | Bektemir Osmonali |
| Scientific name: | Carex turkestanica Regel |
| Herbar: | list records  |
| Description: | Rhizome long, creeping or obliquely ascending. Culms tufted, 10-30 cm tall, triquetrous, smooth, clothed with few red-brown and bladeless sheaths and rudimentary sheaths at base, rudimentary sheaths usually disintegrating into reticulate fibers. |
| Link to Flora of China: | http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200026663 |
| Habitat: | In steppes, on steppe meadows and forest edges with sand or keswani soil in mountainous areas. |