| Name | Lygodesmia spinosa Nuttall |
| Authorship | Nuttall |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Lygodesmia |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:231363-1 |
| Citation | 1841 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. n.s. 7: 444 |
| Holdings | 7 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Lygodesmia spinosa Nuttall |
| Identification made in | [no date] (5), 2015 (2) |