| Name | Eragrostis sclerantha Nees |
| Authorship | Nees |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Eragrostis Wolf |
| Contains | Eragrostis sclerantha subsp. villosipes (Jedwabnick) Launert |
| Citation | 1841 Fl. Afr. Austral. Ill. Ill.: 388 |
| Holdings | 3 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Eragrostis sclerantha Nees |
| Identification made in | [no date] (3) |