| Name | Mussaenda polita Hiern |
| Authorship | Hiern |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Mussaenda Linnaeus |
| Citation | 1877 Fl. Trop. Afr. [Oliver et al.]. 3: 67 |
| Holdings | 4 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Mussaenda polita Hiern |
| Identification made in | [no date] (3), 2016 (1) |