| Name | Cnestidium rufescens Planchon |
| Authorship | Planchon |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Cnestidium |
| Citation | 1850 Linnaea (Geneva) 23: 440 |
| Holdings | 3 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Cnestidium rufescens Planchon |
| Identification made in | 1978 (3) |