A species from the genus Andropogon, that has been known since 2011 from the island of La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain), is here identified as the African A. abyssinicus based on morphological and DNA sequence data: the plastid atpB-rbcL spacer and matK gene and the nuclear rDNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS) of two samples: R. Otto 21020 (https://www.botanicalcollections.be/specimen/BR0000033229232) and R. Otto 23505 (https://www.botanicalcollections.be/specimen/BR0000025861037V).