Cuscuta europaea Linnaeus var. epithymum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 124. 1753.

RCN: 1023.

Basionym of: Cuscuta epithymum (L.) L. (1759) .

Lectotype ( García & Cafferty in Taxon 54: 478. 2005): Herb. Burser XII: 104 (UPS) .

Current name: Cuscuta epithymum (L.) L. ( Cuscutaceae).

Note: Rajpur & Tahir (in Nair & Ali, Fl. Pakistan 189: 14. 1988) erroneously designated 170.4 (LINN), which is not original material, as the type for this name. García & Cafferty rejected this type choice, designating instead Burser material as lectotype.