| Name | Canthium rubens Hiern |
| Authorship | Hiern |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Canthium |
| Citation | 1877 Fl. Trop. Afr. [Oliver et al.]. 3: 142 |
| Holdings | 2 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Canthium rubens Hiern |
| Identification made in | [no date] (1), 2016 (1) |