| Name | Cuscuta approximata Babington |
| Authorship | Babington |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Cuscuta Linnaeus |
| Contains | Cuscuta approximata var. urceolata Yuncker |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:267291-1 |
| Citation | 1844 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 13: 253 |
| Holdings | 56 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Cuscuta approximata Babington |
| Identification made in | [no date] (49), 1986 (7) |