ARISTIDA adscensionsis L. [family POACEAE], Sp. Pl.: 82 (1753); Imp. grassl. pl. Kenya: 46 (1951); F.P.S. 3: 395 (1956); R.K.G.: 34 (1958); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 29 (1958); I.G.U.: 17 (1960); G.T.: 24 (1965). Type: Ascension I., Osbeck (LINN, holo.!)
ARISTIDA submucronata Schumach. [family POACEAE], in Schumach. & Thonn., Beskr. Guin. Pl.: 67 (1827); F.P.S. 3: 395 (1956). Type: Ghana, Thonning (C, holo.!)
Chaetaria curvata Nees [family POACEAE], Fl. Afr. Austr.: 186 (1841). Type: South Africa, Cape Province, Ecklon (B, holo.!)
Aristida curvata (Nees) Trin. & Rupr. [family POACEAE], Sp. Gram. Stip.: 133 (1842); de Winter in Bothalia 8: 253 (1965)
Aristida guineënsis Trin. & Rupr. [family POACEAE], Sp. Gram. Stip.: 137 (1842). Type: Ghana, Thonning (LE, holo.)
Aristida mauritiana A. Rich. [family POACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 392 (1851), non Kunth (1829), nom. illegit. Type: Ethiopia, Modat, Ailet, Schimper 1047 (K, iso.!)
Aristida adscensionis (Trin. & Rupr.) Henr. subsp. guineënsis [family POACEAE], in Med. Rijks Herb. Leiden 54: 216 (1926); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 3 (1947)