[3] Carex acutata is a tuft-forming sedge, with clumps of slender, narrow leaves reaching up to 90cm in height.

The inflorescence forms a series of spikes, with brownish flowers, appearing in late spring and summer.

[2] Carex acutata is native to South America.

[4] It is distributed in mountanous habitats of the Tropical Andes, from Bolivia to Venezuela.

[5] The name Carex tessellata was included in the Ecuadorian Red List as a “mysterious species known from a single collection of uncertain precedence”.