| Name | Aristida ciliata Desfontaines |
| Authorship | Desfontaines |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Aristida Linnaeus |
| Contains | Aristida ciliata var. capensis Trinius & Ruprecht |
| Citation | 1809 Neues J. Bot. 3: 255 |
| Holdings | 12 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Aristida ciliata Desfontaines |
| Identification made in | [no date] (12) |