Engelmann, G. (1859), Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 1(3): 512 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Hobartstown, Tasmania, Gunn! 1991, in Hb. Hooker."

misapplication: Cuscuta australis R.Br. legitimate by Hooker, J.D. (28 July 1857), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 1(4): 278

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 441 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Cuscuta australis R.Br. legitimate by Hooker, J.D. (28 July 1857), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 1(4): 278

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 87 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 95 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1886), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 3: 5 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 137 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Cuscuta australis R.Br. legitimate by Hooker, J.D. (28 July 1857), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 1(4): 278

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 469 [secondary reference]

Yuncker, T.G. (1932), The genus Cuscuta. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club 18(2): 142-143, Fig. 18 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Cuscuta australis R.Br. legitimate by Hooker, J.D. (28 July 1857), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 1(4): 278

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 706 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 262 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 501 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 106 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 143 [secondary reference]

Johnson, R.W. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Convolvulaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 374 [secondary reference]

common name: Tasmanian Dodder [n/a]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Cuscutaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 377, Fig. 73c [secondary reference]

common name: Golden Dodder [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

misapplication: Cuscuta australis R.Br. legitimate by Hooker, J.D. (28 July 1857), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 1(4): 278

• APC Dist.: WA, SA, NSW, Vic, Tas

Parker, C.M. & Biggs, L.J. (1 May 2014), Updates to Western Australia's vascular plant census for 2013. Nuytsia 24: 55 [secondary reference]

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 35 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cuscuta tasmanica Engelm. var. tasmanica legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cuscuta tasmanica var. brevistyla Yunck. legitimate misapplication: Cuscuta australis R.Br. legitimate by Hooker, J.D. (28 July 1857), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 1(4): 278

• APC Dist.: SA, NSW, Vic, Tas

---