| Name | Marantochloa purpurea Milne-Redhead |
| Authorship | Milne-Redhead |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Marantochloa |
| Citation | 1950 Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 83: 21. |
| Holdings | 5 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Marantochloa purpurea Milne-Redhead |
| Identification made in | [no date] (5) |