| 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) |