| Name | Cuscuta applanata Engelmann |
| Authorship | Engelmann |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Cuscuta Linnaeus |
| Citation | 1859 Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 1: 479 |
| Holdings | 42 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Cuscuta applanata Engelmann |
| Identification made in | [no date] (31), 1941 (5), 1989 (1), 2017 (5) |