Valid publication of the name Carex henryi (Cyperaceae) from Asia

are 535 species in three subgenera and 57 sections recognized in China (Dai et al. 2010, Wang et al. 2012). Carex sect. Graciles Kükenthal (1899: 516) is characterized by the sheathed involucral bracts, two to numerous spikes, usually one to several spikes borne in an involucral bract sheath, rarely arranged in a compound inflorescence, the female spikes sparsely flowered, rarely slightly more densely flowered, two stigmas, and plano-convex or biconvex utricles (Dai et al. 2010). It consists of about thirty species distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, Australia and the Pacific islands. Twenty-one species, with thirteen of them endemic, were recorded in China (Dai et al. 2010). Carex henryi belongs to sect. Graciles and was reported from China and Nepal (Dai et al. 2010, Yano et al. 2013). The name Carex henryi was originally used on herbarium specimens by Clarke in the 1880s–1890s, but it was not formally published then. Later, it was mentioned by Franchet (1896) under the name C. bodinieri Franchet (1896: 243). The name Carex henryi was however not accepted by Franchet, and no description was provided. Therefore, this name was not validly published then, and the authorship should no