Synonymy:
Physarum melanospermum Pers., Neues Mag. Bot. 1: 88 (1794)
Diderma melanospermum (Pers.) Fr., Systema Mycologicum 3(1): 114 (1829)

Didymium farinaceum Schrad., Nov. gen. pl. (Lipsiae): 26 [sic, 22] (1797)
Physarum farinaceum (Schrad.) Pers., Syn. meth. fung. (Göttingen) 1: 174 (1801)
Trichia farinacea (Schrad.) Poir., in Lamarck, Encyclop. Mycol. (Paris) 8: 53 (1808)

Cionium farinaceum Link, Mag. Gesell. naturf. Freunde, Berlin 3(1-2): 28 (1809)

Position in classification:
Didymium, Didymiidae, Stemonitida, Myxogastria, Myxogastrea, Amoebozoa, Protozoa

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