| Name | Festuca patula Desfontaines |
| Authorship | Desfontaines |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Festuca Linnaeus |
| Citation | 1798 Fl. Atlant. 1: 86–87 |
| Holdings | 1 Specimen held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Festuca patula Desfontaines |
| Identification made in | [no date] (1) |