| Name | Cuscuta pentagona Engelmann |
| Authorship | Engelmann |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | Unknown |
| Placed in | Cuscuta Linnaeus |
| Contains | Cuscuta pentagona var. glabrior (Engelmann) Gandhi, R. D. Thomas & S. L. Hatch Cuscuta pentagona var. polygonorum (Engelmann) T. C. Béliz Cuscuta pentagona var. pubescens Engelmann Cuscuta pentagona var. verrucosa (Engelmann) Yuncker |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:72922-2 |
| Citation | 1842 Amer. J. Sci. Arts 43: 340 |
| Holdings | 332 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Cuscuta pentagona Engelmann |
| Identification made in | [no date] (222), 1941 (2), 1969 (3), 1986 (99), 1987 (6) |