Carex preissii is a flowering plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae, that is native to Western Australia.[1]
The species was described by the botanist Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck in 1846 as a part of the work Plantae Preissianae. The type specimen was collected by Ludwig Preiss.[2]
The sedge is found along the coast in the Peel, South West, Great Southern and Goldfields-Esperance regions.