| 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) |