Cuscuta cordofana (Engelm.) Yunck.

POWO follows these authorities in synonymising this name:

• Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Cuscuta australis var. australis.]
• Deroin, T. (2001). Convolvulaceae. Flore de Madagascar et des Comores (Plantes Vasculaires) 171: 11-287. Typographie Firmin-Didot et Cie., Paris. [Cited as Cuscuta australis.]
• Getachew Aweke & S. Edwards (2006). 159B. Cuscutaceae. Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 5: 232-234. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps. [Cited as Cuscuta australis.]
• Gonçalves, M.L. (1987). Cuscutaceae. Flora Zambesiaca 8(1): 130-135. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Cuscuta australis.]
• Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne. [Cited as Cuscuta scandens.]
• Heine, H. in Hutchinson, J. & Dalziel, J.M. (1963). Convolvulaceae. Flora of West Tropical Africa, second edition 2: 335-352 + 496. Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations. [Cited as Cuscuta australis R.Br..]
• Verdcourt, B. (1963). Convolvulaceae. Flora of Tropical East Africa: 1-161. [Cited as Cuscuta australis R.Br..]

This name was accepted following an alternative taxonomy by these authorities:

• Andrews, F.W. in Andrews, F.W. (1956). Convolvulaceae. The Flowering Plants of the Sudan 3: 102-125. T.Buncle & co., LTD., Arbroath, Scotland. [Cited as Cuscuta cordofana (Engelm.) Yuncker.]
• Yuncker, T.G. (1932). The genus Cuscuta. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club 18: 113-331. New York Botanical Garden. [Cited as Cuscuta cordofana.]